Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Once more; anew: Try again.
- adv. To a previous place, position, or state: left home but went back again.
- adv. Furthermore; moreover: Again, we need to collect more data.
- adv. On the other hand: She might go, and again she might not.
- adv. In return; in response: paid him again.
- idiom. again and again Repeatedly; frequently.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of motion or direction: Back: in the opposite direction; to or toward a former or the original position; to the same place or person: often strengthened with back.
- Of action: Back; in return; in reply, response, answer, echo.
- Of action or fact as related to time, or of time simply: Once more; in addition; another time; anew: marking repetition
- Of action or existence: as, to do anything again; he had to make it all over again.
- Of number or quantity: only in the phrases as much or as many again (= twice as much or as many), half as much again (= once and a half as much), etc.
- Of kind or character: marking resemblance.
- Of succession of thought: Once more; in continuation; in an additional case or instance; moreover; besides (marking transition); on the other hand (marking contrast).
- Against.
- Against the time that: like against, conj.
Wiktionary
- prep. obsolete Against.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In return, back.
- adv. Another time; once more; anew.
- adv. Once repeated; -- of quantity.
- adv. Archaic In any other place.
- adv. On the other hand.
- adv. Moreover; besides; further.
- prep. obsolete Against; also, towards (in order to meet).
WordNet 3.0
- adv. anew.
Etymologies
- From Middle English again, ayain, anȝen, from Old English onġēan ("towards, against, opposite to, contrary to, against, in exchange for, opposite, back, again, anew, also"), equivalent to a- + gain (“against”). Cognate with Danish igen ("again"), Swedish igen ("again, back"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English (influenced by Old Norse i gegn, again), from Old English ongeagn, against. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It delivered me to this unknown rock, where trees meet on hill-tops to tangle dark branches under fog shot with dankness and blight, and I am always welcome because I am the only one — and the funny birds who tell no jokes, and the giant bile-squirting flowers, and the delirious prancing monkeys, and I have nothing in particular to say, and I say it again and again ”
““Sitting again awn the lap of God.” *muffled sound ov purrson traing nawt to crai again*”
Mahm!!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Right now I'm listening to "Strawberry Gashes" and being once again stunned that Ryan doesn't see this as a happy song ... it's so pretty and it leaves my blood racing and my entire body trembling with the need to touch him. * shrugs again*”
“After a while, she caught the blur for a moment again, lost it again .”
““I had a feeling … And when you saw him again, after twenty years, all the old jealousy built up again … ””
“And the third thing was that Gibreel Farishta opened his eyes to find himself collapsed, once again, on Alleluia Cone's doorstep, begging her forgiveness, weeping _O God, it happened, it really happened again_.”
“It was a terrible strain on me to keep her at school, ma'am, and again and _again_ I've thought I couldn't stand it, what with her being in the shop only in the afternoon, and the washing, and trying to keep her clothes always nice; though she's been as good as”
“But would Age be young again merely _to grow old again_?”
“And again I sunk into visions of Ligeia -- and again (what marvel that I shudder while I write?), _again_ there reached my ears a low sob from the region of the ebony bed.”
“Down the line galloped Mr. Grundy again, stopped, bowed, "swung with the left," and _bowed again_.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘again’.
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EN - Glasgow stop list
Words to be replaced by a paragraph mark if you are after terms and MWEs.
about, above, across, after, afterwards, again, against, all, almost, alone, along, already and 291 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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Transitional and otherwise
then, consequently, thus, hence, so, ergo, wherefore, henceforward, to that end, to this end, accordingly, as a result and 34 more...
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agreement
in the first place, not only ... but ..., as a matter of fact, in like manner, in addition, coupled with, in the same fashi..., first, second, third, in the light of, not to mention, to say nothing of, equally important and 22 more...
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broken
unable, to, complete, request, sorry, something, has, gone, terribly, wrong, When, the and 35 more...
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bootload's Words
grouse, beaut, ripper, gassit, hack, hacking, twit, spon, goon, rosella, magpie, galah and 184 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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Rubbies
Words and things that rub me wrong
eclectic, canon, flesh, irregardless, conversate, can't, mandatory, war on christmas, male bonding, pissa, parochial, infallible and 98 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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The Old English Influence
Modern English words impacted by and descended from Old English.
a, aback, abaft, abide, about, above, abode, accursed, accurst, ache, acknowledge, acorn and 109 more...
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the a list
self-explanatory...
abort, able, about, addiction, absence, annotated, actual, accelerate, acidity, accolades, accomplish, accompany and 57 more...
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Tunie: No Man's Land
By Eric Bogle.
Well, how'd you do, Private Willie McBride,
D'you mind if I sit down here by your graveside?
I'll rest for a while in the warm summer sun,
Been walking...again, vain, dying, killing, shame, glory, sorrow, suffering, end, war, the cause, why and 47 more...
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Basic English -- operations
Basic English -- 100 words for operations
come, get, give, go, keep, let, make, put, seem, take, be, do and 88 more...
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oh canada
Some of these are words that I've only heard from Canadians. Others are just words that are used or pronounced differently here.
keener, sleeve, about, phone, toque, soccer baseball, pasta, elastic, washroom, beaver tail, loonie, postal code and 23 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for again.
uselessness Why do you hate British people so much? Feb 24, 2007
abraxaszugzwang I dislike when this is used to rhyme with words like "pain" in poetry. Sure, you can pronounce it that way, but I don't and it always throws me. Feb 24, 2007