Search Result for "aisle": pronunciation
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. a long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods);

2. passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores;
[syn: aisle, gangway]

3. part of a church divided laterally from the nave proper by rows of pillars or columns; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Aisle \Aisle\, n. [OF. ele, F. aile, wing, wing of a building,
   L. ala, contr. fr. axilla.] (Arch.)
      (a) A lateral division of a building, separated from the
          middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or
          piers, which support the roof or an upper wall
          containing windows, called the clearstory wall.
      (b) Improperly used also for the have; -- as in the
          phrases, a church with three aisles, the middle aisle.
      (c) Also (perhaps from confusion with alley), a passage
          into which the pews of a church open.
          [1913 Webster]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

37 Moby Thesaurus words for "aisle":
   access, alley, ambulatory, aperture, arcade, artery, avenue,
   channel, cloister, colonnade, communication, conduit, connection,
   corridor, covered way, defile, exit, ferry, ford, gallery, inlet,
   interchange, intersection, junction, lane, opening, outlet,
   overpass, pass, passage, passageway, portico, railroad tunnel,
   traject, trajet, tunnel, underpass