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# alongside

«alongside» in Mova's school dictionary: **next to, beside or along the side of something** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

preposition; adverb

### meaning for a pupil

1) Alongside means next to, beside or along the side of something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alongside/#m1)

2) Alongside means together with someone, working or being with them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alongside/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and stories: «the boat sailed alongside the pier». In school: «working alongside a partner». In news: «alongside other countries». In maths, placing one shape alongside another can make a longer length.

### examples

- The dog trotted alongside me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alongside/#x1)
- The boat pulled up alongside the jetty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alongside/#x2)
- I worked alongside my friend on the project. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alongside/#x3)
- Put the two rulers alongside each other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alongside/#x4)
- The path runs alongside the river. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alongside/#x5)
- She played alongside older girls in the team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alongside/#x6)
- Two 30-centimetre rulers placed end to end alongside a table measure 60 centimetres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alongside/#x7)
- His horse grew tired, and all of a sudden it came to a standstill alongside of a graveyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alongside/#x8)

### note

One word: alongside. «Alongside of» is mostly American and informal. Similar: beside, next to; «together with» for the second sense.

### In the corpora

- [Crocodile ancestors lived alongside dinosaurs over 200 million years ago, and crocodiles are the closest living relatives of birds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/12/)
- [Calling pigeons rats with wings is unfair: they have lived alongside people for thousands of years, and people bred them on purpose.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/221-pigeons-head-bobbing-homing-and-city-cliffs/12/)
- [Africa kept more of its big animals, perhaps because they grew up alongside people and learned to fear them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/272-mammoths-and-the-ice-age-giants/16/)
- [Joining in alongside someone being laughed at can turn mocking into fun.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/370-standing-by-a-friend/29/)
- [Funerals often include music the person loved, such as a football song, alongside hymns and readings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/58-when-a-grandparent-dies/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «alongside» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/alongside/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.