Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective One more; an additional.
- adjective Distinctly different from the first.
- adjective Some other.
- pronoun An additional one.
- pronoun A different one.
- pronoun One of an undetermined number or group.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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 ).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- preposition One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.
- preposition Not the same; different.
- preposition Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; any one else; some one else.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- determiner One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.
- determiner Not the
same ;different . - determiner
Any orsome ; anydifferent person ,indefinitely ;anyone else ;someone else.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective any of various alternatives; some other
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
Monitor 2010
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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.
TEDBUNDY Michaud, S G & Aynesworth H 1989
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And if she had had another girl, and then another …
Maigret in Society Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989 1962
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[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."
Dorothy Dainty's Gay Times Amy Brooks
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_A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another_.
Daily Strength for Daily Needs Mary W. Tileston
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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 Charles Raymond Barrett
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He had made another total misconception of life, another inconceivable false start.
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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.
Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the United States of America 1918
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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?
XIII. Borne Along by the Tide. Book VI—The Great Temptation 1917
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