aside(ə sīd´) adv.

1 on or to one side[pull the curtains aside]
2 away; in reserve[put the book aside for me]
3 out of the way; out of one's mind[lay the proposal aside temporarily]
☆4 apart; notwithstanding[joking aside, I mean it]
–n.
1 words spoken by an actor in such a way that they are heard by the audience but supposedly not by the other actors
2 a written digression[a novelist's aside to the reader]☆aside from
1 with the exception of 
2 apart from; besides