AISLE
What does "AISLE" mean?
A passage between rows of seats, shelves, or pews.
Meanings
- A walkway between sections of seating in a theatre, plane, or church. She asked for an aisle seat so she could stretch her legs.
- A lane between shelving in a shop or warehouse. The cereal is in aisle seven, next to the bread.
- A side division of a church running parallel to the nave. Light fell through the windows of the north aisle. technical
Did you know?
- The silent 's' in 'aisle' is a historical mistake: the word descends from Latin 'ala', a wing, and never had an s - spellers borrowed one from the unrelated word 'isle'.
Word origin
From Latin 'ala' (wing) via Old French 'ele'; the modern spelling was reshaped by confusion with 'isle' and French 'aile', adding a silent S and final E.
Remember it
AISLE: 'A Isle Stands Largely Empty' - and an island (isle) sits hidden inside the spelling.
A little poem
Long carpet of red-
two lives walk it from each end
to meet in the middle.
haiku
Wordplay
- I asked which way to the church exit. They said either aisle - so I went down the one that led to the altar, and now I'm married.
What it teaches
An aisle is just empty space, yet it decides everything: where you sit, what you reach, and whom you walk toward.
Quick facts
What does AISLE mean?
A passage between rows of seats, shelves, or pews.
Is AISLE a valid word?
Yes — AISLE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is AISLE?
AISLE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does AISLE come from?
From Latin 'ala' (wing) via Old French 'ele'; the modern spelling was reshaped by confusion with 'isle' and French 'aile', adding a silent S and final E.
What can AISLE teach us?
An aisle is just empty space, yet it decides everything: where you sit, what you reach, and whom you walk toward.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.