What is the meaning of side by side?

adjective

  • Nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space.
    • usage: "had adjacent rooms"; "in the next room"; "the person sitting next to me"; "our rooms were side by side"
  • Closely related or associated.
    • usage: "a city in which communism and democracy had to live side by side"
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