Meaning

In addition to..

Definitions by Sense

1. In addition to.
2. Other than; except for; instead of.
3. (now informal) Beside, next to.
4. (conjunctive) Also; in addition.
5. (conjunctive) Used to emphasize an additional point, especially an important or stronger reason; moreover; furthermore.
6. Otherwise; else.
7. (obsolete) On one side.

Example Sentences

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 classic authors that are extant […]

I don't want to go anywhere besides India.

I want to go with someone besides my father.

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 one Eſquire, ſo that beeing launched foorth from the ſhore, through very diſpaire Edwin lept into the Sea, and drowned himſelfe, but the Eſquire that was with him recouered his body, and broughte it to land at Withſand beſides Canterbury.

Beſides them both, vpon the ſoiled gras / The dead corſe of an armed knight was ſpred, […]

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Use besides when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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