1
[ adverb ] making an additional point; anyway

Synonyms

in_any_case

Examples

"I don't want to go to a restaurant besides, we can't afford it" "she couldn't shelter behind him all the time and in any case he wasn't always with her"

Used in print

("Editorials"...)

Besides , he can hardly avoid musing on the instability of death which , what with exhumations and rehabilitations , seems to match that of life .

(William Maxwell, The Chateau....)

Besides , the records were dusty .

(Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)

There was an air of blindness in her gray eyes , the startled horse look that ultimately comes to some women who are_born at the end of an ancestral line long_since divorced from money-making and which , besides , has kept its estate intact .

(Philip Jos‚ Farmer, The Lovers....)

Besides , they were not the only impressions .

2
[ pronoun ] preposition, almost all with the exception of

Synonyms

except except_for apart_from

3
[ adverb ] in addition

Synonyms

also too as_well likewise

Examples

"he has a Mercedes, too"

Used in print

(Jay Williams, The Forger....)

Each of us had his own specialty besides .

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Rhymes with

sides' side's silversides ironsides

Phonetic and Homophones

B IH0 S AY1 D Z

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