another
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Etymology [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
- anoda (Jamaican English)
Pronunciation [edit]
- (UK) IPA: /əˈnʌðə(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /@"nVD@(r\)/
- (US) IPA: /əˈnʌðɚ/, X-SAMPA: /@"nVD@`/
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Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌðə(r)
- Hyphenation: an‧oth‧er
Determiner [edit]
another
- One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.
- Yes, I'd like another slice of cake, thanks.
- Not the same; different.
- Do you know another way to do this job?
- But that is another story and will be told another time .
- 1979 , Micheal Ende , The Neverending Story , p.53 , ISBN 0140386335
- Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; anyone else; someone else.
- He has never known another like her.
Usage notes [edit]
- As a fused head construction another may have a possessive another's (plural: others, or possessive plural other). It is much used in opposition to one; as, one went one way, another another. It is also used with one, in a reciprocal sense; as, "love one another," that is, let each love the other or others.
- Milton
- These two imparadised in one another's arms.
- Milton
- Another is sometimes abused by saying, "a whole nother." This is a colloquialism which should not be used in formal writing.[1] The proper way to say this would be either "a whole other" or a "another whole."
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Translations [edit]
one more, in addition to a former number
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not the same; different
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any or some
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References [edit]
- ^ ""List of grammatical errors from Paul Brians of Washington State University"", URL accessed on 2009-05-06.
- another in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Statistics [edit]
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Most common English words before 1923: new · years · always · #170: another · right · each · between