Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. One more; an additional: had another cup of coffee.
- adj. Distinctly different from the first: took another route to town.
- adj. Some other: put it off to another day.
- pro. An additional one: one encore followed by another.
- pro. A different one: This shirt is too big; I'll try another.
- pro. One of an undetermined number or group: for one reason or another. See Usage Note at each other.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A second, a further, an additional; one more, one further: with a noun expressed or understood. Of the same series.
- “You mistake me, friend,” cries Partridge: “I did not mean to abuse the cloth; I only said your conclusion was a non sequitur.”
- Of the same kind, nature, or character, though different in substance: used by way of comparison.
- A different, distinct (with a noun expressed or understood); especially, of persons, a different person, some one else, any one else. Distinct in place, time, or personality, or non-identical individually.
- Of a different kind, nature, or character, though the same in substance: used by way of contrast: as, he has become another man.
- [Another always implies a series of two or more, starting with one, which is often necessarily expressed: as, he tried one, and then another; he went one way, and I went another; they went out one after another.
- That is: Bear ye (each one of you) another's burdens. So each other (which see, under each).
Wiktionary
- One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.
- Not the same; different.
- Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; anyone else; someone else.
GNU Webster's 1913
- prep. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.
- prep. Not the same; different.
- prep. Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; any one else; some one else.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. any of various alternatives; some other
Etymologies
- an + other. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English on other : on, one; see one + other, other; see other. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In the darkness I lay waiting for the day to dissipate then I follow the footfalls that follow: night after night the insomnia of another& it's night after night pacing around the edges of another room.”
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“I mean, I'm an existentialist to the degree that I don't believe anybody can know fully what another person feels and why another person does something-because we act as such a complexity of things.”
“And if she had had another girl, and then another … ”
“[Illustration: "There! that's another fountain."] "There!" she said, pointing to a pipe that ran along the floor beneath a shelf filled with flowering plants; "that's _another_ fountain, and I should think they'd have both playing when they have a party.”
“_A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another_.”
“For a long time the matter was suppressed, and then first one hint after another leaked out that Mrs. Daniels, the minister's wife, was _a most unhappy woman_, and that there was _another woman in the case_.”
Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story
“He had made another total misconception of life, another inconceivable false start.”
“Form a bucket brigade from the fire to the nearest water supply; passing the filled pails from one to another rapidly, the last throwing the water on the fire and passing the empty pails back along _another_ line to be filled again and passed on as before.”
“And when something like that fulness of existencelove, wealth, ease, refinement, all that her nature cravedwas brought within her reach, why was she to forego it, that another might have it, another, who perhaps needed it less?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘another’.
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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EN - Glasgow stop list
Words to be replaced by a paragraph mark if you are after terms and MWEs.
yours, yourself, yet, your, without, you, within, will, yourselves, would, why, with and 291 more...
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FUN - Beatles song titles
Typical words from Beatles song titles. Can you recreate the titles?
(Grammatical words have been omitted)another, three, place, work, eyes, new, said, give, face, day, going, like and 388 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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The Other
Anything with to do with the word "other," or any sort of otherness (including words with the letters o-t-h-e-r, in that order, in their definitions).
other, Constitutive Other, The Other, Other, The Others, otherwise, othering, another, otherworldly, other-worldly, otherways, otherness and 35 more...
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him and i
peach, left, alone, abandon, horid, gay, bloody, beautiful, outside, inside, confused, unconditional and 111 more...
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Mollusque's miscellany
A mixture of words that I like or have commented on, along with ones parked here so they'd be listed somewhere or remind me of lists I want to make.
oranger, monographer, preoccupied, bu, bobization, coinventor, tetrapyloctomy, borgmannian, suspercollate, manhug, mancrush, obituarist and 604 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb 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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April28.CV.
sincerely, going to, heard, bother, pretty, come up with, a couple, stuck, rich, actually, in terms of, quite and 11 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for another.
mollusque A new record! 1.47 billion g-hits, but not previously listed on Wordie. Jul 17, 2008