An aisle seat is a seat beside the walkway. Ask for an aisle seat.
It gives room to stretch a leg and means getting up without disturbing anybody. An aisle seat is also the one caught by every trolley on a long flight.
1nounaisle seatA seat beside the walkway.
“He always booked an aisle seat and never slept on a flight.”
aisle seat is a seat.
Aisle plus seat; aisle comes from Latin ala, a wing, and once meant the side part of a church.
From aisle + seat.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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