besides
In addition to.
Adverb
- Also; in addition.
- We've paid for your whole education and plenty more besides!
- It is besides used as a food, either as a sallad^([sic]), raw, or boiled as greens. - 1776, Thomas Pennant, A Tour in Scotland and Voyage to the Hebrides, 1772:
- This was but one of Cluny’s hiding-places; he had caves, besides, and underground chambers in several parts of his country; and following the reports of his scouts, he moved from one to another as the soldiers drew near...
- Used to emphasize an additional point, especially an important or stronger reason; moreover; furthermore.
- I don't feel like going out tonight. Besides, I have to work tomorrow morning anyway.
- Otherwise; else.
- I have been to Spain but nowhere besides.
- On one side.
- You are so strongly in my purpose bred That all the world besides methinks are dead - 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 112”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be...
- Yet Teucer would another shaft, at Hectors life dispose; So faine, he such a marke would hit: but still besides it goes; - c. 1611, George Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 8, p. 111:
Origin
From Middle English bisides (also bisiden), extension of biside, equivalent to beside + -s (adverbial suffix).
Related
Preposition
- In addition to.
- Besides José, I'll invite Jay and Renée, the three of them.
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all...
- Other than; except for; instead of.
- I don't want to go anywhere besides India.
- I want to go with someone besides my father.
- Beside, next to.
- 1561, Geneva Bible, Acts 16:13, And on the Sabbath day, we went out of the citie, beſides a riuer, where they were wont to pray : and we ſate downe, and ſpake vnto the women, which were come together.
- After this, was Edwin the Kings brother accuſed of ſome conſpiracie by him begun againſt the K. whervpõ he was baniſhed the land, and ſent out in an old rotten veſſell without rower or Marriner, onely accompanied with...
- Beſides them both, vpon the ſoiled gras / The dead corſe of an armed knight was ſpred, […] - 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC,...