An aisle is a passageway, often between seating areas or shelves. Brides walk down aisles in between church pews, while you might head to the cookie aisle in the supermarket.
A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.
Noun
passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores
Noun
part of a church divided laterally from the nave proper by rows of pillars or columns
Noun
a long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods)
n.
A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle
part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the
roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.
n.
Improperly used also for the have; -- as in the phrases, a
church with three aisles, the middle aisle.
n.
Also (perhaps from confusion with alley), a passage into
which the pews of a church open.
Aisle
A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.
Usage Examples
You've got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.
Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.
If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.
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Other Usage ExamplesThis is one of the major problems we have. By the way, it was endorsed by leadership on both sides of the aisle and both ends of the Capitol, by the NRA and also by the gun control groups.
If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.
When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.
That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to right, looking at people and smiling in the way that Diana did - and that diamond tiara glittering like mad. It was great.
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