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aisle

An aisle is a passageway, often between seating areas or shelves. Brides walk down aisles in between church pews, while you might head to the cookie aisle in the supermarket.

An aisle is essentially a passageway between something. You have to walk down an aisle to reach your seat at a theater or concert hall, to get to your seat on a crowded airplane, or to reach the produce at your local supermarket. The ai in aisle is pronounced like a long i, so the word sounds like isle rather than ail.

DEFINITIONS OF: aisle

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n a long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods)

Type of:
passage
a way through or along which someone or something may pass

n passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores

Synonyms:
gangway
Type of:
passageway
a passage between rooms or between buildings

n part of a church divided laterally from the nave proper by rows of pillars or columns

Type of:
area
a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function
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