aisleaisle /aɪl/ ●○○ noun [countable] 
Would you like a window seat or an aisle seat (=seat next to the aisle)?2go/walk down the aisle informal to get married → be rolling in the aisles at roll1(20)
WORD ORIGINaisle
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French ele ‘wing’, from Latin ala; influenced by English isle and French aile ‘wing’EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Across the bleachers, the Oregon band puts down its instruments and starts dancing in the aisles.
- An aisle of steps ran through the room, front to back.
- Last year the musical had the audience dancing in the aisles so tickets are selling fast.
- Primo waves his hand at his own reflection and that of the empty seat on the opposite side of the aisle.
- We paraded down the aisle, tapping loudly with our canes and shouting and whistling to the crowd.
WORD SETS
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Would you like a window seat or an aisle seat (=seat next to the aisle)?COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Would you like a window seat or an aisle seat (=seat next to the aisle)? (=one next to the window or the space between seats, for example in a plane)· I'd prefer a window seat, please.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Slowly he and his acolytes processed up the center aisle, carrying the small ball of flame.· Some one had the grand idea of placing gardenia trees at the end of each pew at center aisle.· When Rowena and Frodo were gone, Marge started down the center aisle toward the back door and the parking lot.· It seemed strange that there was no center aisle.· She and her uncle left by the center aisle.
· No more than thirty to forty feet away, at the head of the narrow aisle, was the tiny altar.· The first time Cantor attempted to visit him, the narrow aisles were blocked by serving carts.· Trash cans blocked the narrow aisles.
NOUN· He turned to the right and made for the north choir aisle.· Now the choir and the south choir aisle were empty except for the Chapter clergy and the cathedral policeman.
· Bill is in the aisle seat.· They always chose an aisle seat so that Sweetheart could slip away to talk to her friends without disturbing anyone.· He was in an aisle seat beside two tough-looking men with vaguely familiar faces.· A Cadillac compared to an aisle seat on the bus.
VERB· The pew creaked when Keith sat down, and Stella looked across the aisle.
· I move among the aisles and walkways, which are a scented, winking, shimmering, crooning riot of Christmas.· Like a chameleon, it moved out of the aisle between machines, then stopped, and became utterly motionless.
· The man screamed, fell off his seat, and rolled down the aisle to the front.· I never saw anyone roll in the aisles.
· She remembers running up the aisle, but mass had ended.· A shadow ran down the aisle, thumping a loose board under my head.
· Singers stood in the aisles, beggars grumbled past them; a leper thrust a fingerless hand at Alan for alms.· He stands in the aisle, beckoning to me.· The fourth and fifth were already jam-packed, people standing in the aisles, body to body.
· The wedding was off, because no way was she going to walk down the aisle looking like an eejit!· The man who had been walking the aisles approached the counter but was empty-handed.· As she walked down the aisle her heart brimmed over with love and adoration for Charles.· Sangfroid then walked up the aisle.· Early the following month a radiant Lucy walked up the aisle on her father's arm.· Together, they walked down the aisle behind the crucifix, toward the rear of the church.· Inspector Miskin was walking down the aisle.· I tremble as I walk up the aisle with the policeman.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
1a long passage between rows of seats in a church, plane, theatre etc, or between rows of shelves in a shop: - As she walked down the aisle her heart brimmed over with love and adoration for Charles.
- He wanted to walk down the aisle with you and give you away to your young man.
- Her mouth turned up at the corners, Mavis walked down the aisle with Walter.
- Inspector Miskin was walking down the aisle.
- Resplendent in red, she walks down the aisle on the arm of the Rev.
- The wedding was off, because no way was she going to walk down the aisle looking like an eejit!
- They looked at the passports and then started to walk down the aisle, pointing their guns at the passengers.
- Together, they walked down the aisle behind the crucifix, toward the rear of the church.
Would you like a window seat or an aisle seat (=seat next to the aisle)?2go/walk down the aisle informal to get married → be rolling in the aisles at roll1(20)