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Besides   /bɪsˈaɪdz/  /bˌisˈaɪdz/   Listen
adverb
Beside, Besides  adv.  
1.
On one side. (Obs.)
2.
More than that; over and above; not included in the number, or in what has been mentioned; moreover; in addition. "The men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides?" "To all beside, as much an empty shade, An Eugene living, as a Caesar dead." Note: These sentences may be considered as elliptical.


preposition
Besides  prep.  Over and above; separate or distinct from; in addition to; other than; else than. See Beside, prep., 3, and Syn. under Beside. "Besides your cheer, you shall have sport."





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"Besides" Quotes from Famous Books



... to his own, Johnson may have noticed these verses of Warton's with some little attention, and unfortunately borrowed the only prosaic lines in his poem. Besides the imitation before quoted, both writers allude to Charles of Sweden. ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 30. Saturday, May 25, 1850 • Various
... in his hut, a square building of split logs, with bare earth floor, and roof of clap-boards and bark. Our lunch consisted of goat's meat and pan de mais. The Mexican, a broad-chested man with a stolid Indian face, was evidently quite a sportsman, and had two or three half-starved hounds, besides the funny, hairless little house dogs, of ...
— Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches • Theodore Roosevelt
... had no money." The Countess had an answer for everything, and if she lied she lied well. "No one knows, no one has ever known, what she lives on, or how she has got all those beautiful things. I don't believe Osmond himself knows. Besides, she wouldn't have ...
— The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2 (of 2) • Henry James
... asked, "many more such wonderfully intelligent and useful creatures tamed to your service, besides the ambau, the ...
— Across the Zodiac • Percy Greg
... effect on the army under his command. We shall soon know, I hope, what Gen. Lee will have to say on the subject, and I am mistaken if he does not oppose it. If these men had been put to death in the heat of passion, on the field, it would have been justified, but it is too late now. Besides, Gen. Lee's son is a captive in the hands of the enemy, designated for retaliation whenever we shall execute any of their prisoners in our hands. It is cruelty ...
— A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital • John Beauchamp Jones


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