- a passage between rows of seats in a church, theatre, train, etc., or between rows of shelves in a supermarket
- an aisle seat (= in a plane or train)
- Coffee and tea are in the next aisle.
- Last year the musical had the audience dancing in the aisles.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryAisle is used before these nouns:- seat
- candy
- grocery
- supermarket
- …
Word Originlate Middle English ele, ile, from Old French ele, from Latin ala ‘wing’. The spelling change in the 17th cent. was due to confusion with isle and influenced by French aile ‘wing’.
Idioms
See aisle in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarygo/walk down the aisle
- (informal) to get marriedTopics Life stagesc2
rolling in the aisles
- (informal) laughing a lot
- She soon had us rolling in the aisles.
side of the fence
(North American English also side of the aisle)
- used to refer to either of two opposite opinions on an issue
- The two countries are often on opposite sides of the fence when it comes to climate change.
- There are arguments on both sides of the aisle.
Extra Examples- On the other side of the fence there is anger at the reforms.
- It is a proposal approved by people on both sides of the political fence.
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