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IELTS BNC: 7161 COCA: 4484
1
a(1)
: a passage (as in a theater or railroad passenger car) separating sections of seats
(2)
: such a passage regarded as separating opposing parties in a legislature
supported by members on both sides of the aisle
b
: a passage (as in a store or warehouse) for inside traffic
2
: the side of a church nave separated by piers from the nave proper
Phrases
walk down the aisle or less commonly go down the aisle
: to get married
Prenuptial agreements have long been used by couples who want to set down the terms of any future divorce before they walk down the aisle. Desa Philadelpha

Example Sentences

The bride walked down the aisle to the altar. By the end of the concert, the people in the theater were dancing in the aisles.
Recent Examples on the Web From the other side of the aisle, McAdams also had harsh words about Lee. Emily Anderson Stern, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Sep. 2022 Redistricting, the once-every-decade redrawing of Congressional district lines following the Census, has created new jeopardy for candidates on both sides of the aisle. Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2022 Paramount distribution veteran Chris Aronson has a message for both sides of the aisle. Pamela Mcclintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Sep. 2022 And while some dispute that claim, legislators on both sides of the aisle in Concord agree that Free Staters have come to wield outsize political influence. Brian Macquarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2022 Indeed, the road to this particular aisle hasn't always been easy. Tricia Despres, PEOPLE.com, 21 July 2022 The agriculture business, one of the world’s biggest consumers of freshwater, is also turning to AI to operate more efficiently, from field to grocery produce aisle. Tony Lystra, Fortune, 11 July 2022 The first of the trio means your seat will transform into a bed almost six-and-a-half-feet-long, while the second grants all seats direct access to the aisle—so no need to climb over your row mate. Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 12 May 2022 At a grocery store outside Reading, Pa., Ms. Mascitis introduces herself to the night manager and heads to the soup aisle to price a can of chicken noodle. Rachel Wolfe, WSJ, 10 May 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Middle English ele, eill, ile, ilde "lateral division of a church on either side of the nave, usually divided from the nave by pillars," borrowed from Anglo-French ele, esle, aile, ile "wing, wing of a building, lateral division of a nave" (continental Old French ele "wing, wing of a building"), going back to Latin āla "wing" — more at ala

Note: The Middle English forms ile, ilde show assimilation to ile, ilde "island" (see isle entry 1)—the rows on either side of the nave perhaps being thought of as isolated from the rest of the church—and effectively supplant ele, eill, etc. in the sixteenth century. The d in ilde is a secondary extrusion (compare mold entry 3). In early Modern English ile competes orthographically with a variety of other spellings, as ayle/aile, which appears to have regressed to the sense "wing" and adopted the Middle French spelling aile, an etymologizing variant of earlier ele; and isle, which copies the spelling of isle entry 1. The now standard spelling aisle looks like a merger of aile and isle. Samuel Johnson enters aisle in his dictionary (1755) with some reluctance: "Thus the word is written by [Joseph] Addison, but perhaps improperly; since it seems deducible only from either aile, a wing, or allée, a path; and is therefore to be written aile." As Johnson was likely aware, aisle had developed a broadened sense "passage between pews in the middle of a church" that copies a now out-of-use sense of alley entry 1. The still broader extensions "passage between seats in a train, bus or airplane" and "space between rows of items in a department store or supermarket" first appeared in American English.

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Time Traveler
The first known use of aisle was in the 15th century

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