aisle
n.
passage, walkway (between rows of seats)
Aisle
aisle
Noun
1. a long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods)
(hypernym) passage
2. passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores
(synonym) gangway
(hypernym) passageway
3. part of a church divided laterally from the nave proper by rows of pillars or columns
(hypernym) area
aislar
v.
sequester, separate; isolate, seclude; insulate
Aisle
(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.
(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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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