aisle
/aɪ̯l/ noun A2- A wing of a building, notably in a church separated from the nave proper by piers.
- A clear path/passage through rows of seating.
- A clear corridor in a supermarket with shelves on both sides containing goods for sale.
- Any path through an otherwise obstructed space.
- Seat in public transport, such as a plane, train or bus, that's beside the aisle. · Do you want to seat window or aisle?
- An idiomatic divide between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, who are said to be on two sides of the aisle.
- The path of a wedding procession in a church or other venue; (by extension, metonymic) marriage.
Plural aisles
From the library
I was so interested in it that I never noticed Miss Stacy coming down the aisle until all at once I just looked up and there she was looking down at me, so reproachful-like.
Phillips was in the back of the room hearing Prissy Andrews’s Latin, Diana whispered to Anne, “That’s Gilbert Blythe sitting right across the aisle from you, Anne.
Below the boughs the air was full of a purple twilight and far ahead a glimpse of painted sunset sky shone like a great rose window at the end of a cathedral aisle.
Phillips was back in the corner explaining a problem in algebra to Prissy Andrews and the rest of the scholars were doing pretty much as they pleased eating green apples, whispering, drawing pictures on their slates, and driving crickets harnessed to strings, up and down aisle.
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