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AISLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores
Synonyms:
aisle; gangway
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("aisle" is a kind of...):
passageway (a passage between rooms or between buildings)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Part of a church divided laterally from the nave proper by rows of pillars or columns
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("aisle" is a kind of...):
area (a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("aisle" is a kind of...):
passage (a way through or along which someone or something may pass)
Context examples:
He would be lying in camp, dozing lazily in the heat of the day, when suddenly his head would lift and his ears cock up, intent and listening, and he would spring to his feet and dash away, and on and on, for hours, through the forest aisles and across the open spaces where the niggerheads bunched.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
He saw the young tough lurching down that aisle and wondered if he would remove the stiff-rim which never yet had he seen him without.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
There was a grass-grown track descending the forest aisle between hoar and knotty shafts and under branched arches.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Of my walking so proudly and lovingly down the aisle with my sweet wife upon my arm, through a mist of half-seen people, pulpits, monuments, pews, fonts, organs, and church windows, in which there flutter faint airs of association with my childish church at home, so long ago.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Of animal life there was no movement amid the majestic vaulted aisles which stretched from us as we walked, but a constant movement far above our heads told of that multitudinous world of snake and monkey, bird and sloth, which lived in the sunshine, and looked down in wonder at our tiny, dark, stumbling figures in the obscure depths immeasurably below them.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He saw her come down the aisle, with Arthur and a strange young man with a football mop of hair and eyeglasses, the sight of whom spurred him to instant apprehension and jealousy.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I noticed them, because, as they saw us, they passed round to the back of the church; and I doubted not they were going to enter by the side-aisle door and witness the ceremony.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The earthy smell, the sunless air, the sensation of the world being shut out, the resounding of the organ through the black and white arched galleries and aisles, are wings that take me back, and hold me hovering above those days, in a half-sleeping and half-waking dream.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But they saw only the empty centre aisle.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
