other side

noun

The afterlife, as a supernatural realm inhabited by spirits of deceased people.

“This is boring. What's on the other side?”

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Meanings

other side1

noun
  1. idiomaticusually preceded by the and sometimes capitalizedThe afterlife, as a supernatural realm inhabited by spirits of deceased people.

    "Well, when people from the other side communicate with me, they're using thought energy, just like you can't see radio waves coming into the radio."

    2008 April 8, Mark Rahner, “Psychic John Holland talks to the dead”, in Seattle Times, retrieved 22 Jul 2011
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    [I]t has seemed to me wise to take such measures as may be feasible, to acquire, by courtesy of the press, access to my standing obituaries, with the privilege—if this is not asking too much—of editing, not their Facts, but their Verdicts. This, not for the present profit, further than as concerns my family, but as a favorable influence usable on the Other Side, where there are some who are not friendly to me.

    1906, Mark Twain, “Amended Obituaries”, in The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories

    They tell us that something is waiting for us on the other side, that death may be a pilgrimage and not a destination, that the afterlife is a warm awakening after the fretful dream of life.

    1994 August 8, Pico Iyer, “Death Be Not a Stranger”, in Time
  2. idiomaticusually preceded by theThe time after the solution or completion of a problem, adversity, or challenge.

    That clarity comes through on another highlight, Love Is Blind. “I found this part of myself that I think is left out of a lot of love songs: the growth on the other side.”

    2024 August 1, Ben Beaumont-Thomas, “Ravyn Lenae, genius of melody: ‘What’s left out of love songs is the growth on the other side of a breakup’”, in The Guardian
  3. idiomaticpreceded by theThe other side of the Atlantic Ocean (usually between the United States and the United Kingdom).

    Brumagum, as they call it on the other side, is quite an industrial town, and Owen’s parents were poor but honest proletariats.

    1912 October 4, “Owen Moran, British Box-Fighter, Celebrates His 28th Birthday”, in Bridgeport Evening Farmer, volume 48, number 236, Bridgeport, Conn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13, column 4
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    O, how the Britisher longs to vote for Cleveland! But he cannot, and must content himself with merely sending over funds and doing what he may from the other side for the cause he loves so well.

    1892 September 7, “[Grover] Cleveland’s English Allies”, in Protection and Reciprocity, volume I, number 3, New York, N.Y., →OCLC, page [2], column 1

    The latest of these Yankee “invasions” is popcorn—which is called “maizypop” in the British Isles in deference to English diction and for the reason that on the other side “corn” means any kind of grain.

    1905 December 14, “‘Maizypop’ in London”, in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, volume XLIX, number 30, Seattle, Wash., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 3
  4. UKdatedidiomaticslangThe other television channel (when only two were available).

    This is boring. What's on the other side?

  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see other, side.

    We crossed to the other side of the road.

    1 more example

    Give the other side two options to choose from so they will not feel stuck with an ultimatum.

Other Side2

nounOther Side (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of other side.

Synonyms & antonyms

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afterlifeby and bynext worldotherworld
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