another

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See also: anoþer, A.N. Other, A. N. Other, and AN Other

English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English another, equivalent to an +‎ other.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK, unstressed) IPA(key): /əˈnʌð.ə(ɹ)/
    • Audio (UK)(file)
  • (UK, stressed) IPA(key): /æˈnʌð.ə(ɹ)/
  • (US, unstressed) IPA(key): /əˈnʌð.ɚ/
  • (US, stressed) IPA(key): /æˈnʌð.ɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌðə(ɹ)
  • Hyphenation: an‧oth‧er

Determiner[edit]

another

  1. One more/further, 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.
    • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:
      Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].
    • 2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist:
      Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
  2. Not the same; different.
    Do you know another way to do this job?
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
    • 1979, Micheal Ende, The Neverending Story, →ISBN, page 53:
      But that is another story and will be told another time.
    • 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
      In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
  3. 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 went another. It is also used with one in a reciprocal sense; as, "love one another," that is, let each love the other or others.
    • John Milton
      These two imparadised in one another's arms.
  • Another is usually used with a singular noun, but constructions such as "another five days", "another twenty miles", "another few people", "another fifty dollars" are valid too.
  • Sometimes, the word whole is inserted into another by the common process of tmesis, giving: "a whole nother." This is a colloquialism that some recommend avoiding in formal writing.[1] The prescribed alternatives are "a whole other" or "another whole".
  • There may be ambiguity: "another" may or may not imply "replacement", e.g. "I need another chair." may mean "My chair needs to be replaced." or "I need an additional chair [and I need to keep my existing chair]."

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Descendants[edit]

  • Jamaican Creole: anedda

Translations[edit]

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Pronoun[edit]

another

  1. An additional one of the same kind.
    This napkin fell to the floor, could you please bring me another?
    There is one sterling and here is another
  2. One that is different from the current one.
    I saw one movie, but I think I will see another.
  3. One of a group of things of the same kind.
    His interests keep shifting from one thing to another.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Brians, Paul (2016-05-19), “a whole ’nother. Common Errors in English Usage and More”, in (please provide the title of the work)‎[1], Washington State University, retrieved 2019-12-30: “It is one thing to use the expression “a whole ’nother” as a consciously slangy phrase suggesting rustic charm and a completely different matter to use it mistakenly.”

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Middle English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From an other, appearing as a single word starting from the 13th or 14th century.

Pronoun[edit]

another

  1. another

Descendants[edit]

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