Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an alternative manner; in a manner that admits the choice or possibility of one out of two things.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In the manner of alternatives, or that admits the choice of one out of two things.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb in an
alternative way - adverb conjunctive Used to link a pair of possibilities
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in place of, or as an alternative to
Etymologies
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alternative + -ly
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