side-by-side

  • (s) nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space
    • had adjacent rooms
    • in the next room
    • the person sitting next to me
    • our rooms were side by side
    adjacent, next,
  • (s) closely related or associated
    • a city in which communism and democracy had to live side by side

Synonyms

adjacent next

Words of close approximity