another
One more further, in addition to the quantity by then; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.
Determiner
- One more further, in addition to the quantity by then; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.
- Yes, I'd like another slice of cake, thanks.
- 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...
- 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. - 2013...
- Not the same; different.
- Do you know another way to do this job?
- 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...
- But that is another story and will be told another time. - 1983, Michael Ende, translated by Ralph Manheim, The Neverending Story, →ISBN, page 53:
- Any or some other, similar in likeness or in effect, instead.
- One gold ingot is valued the same as another, but gemstones are valued individually.
- But that is another story and will be told another time. - 1983, Michael Ende, translated by Ralph Manheim, The Neverending Story, →ISBN, page 53:
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-West Germanic *ain Old English ān Middle English an Proto-Indo-European *h₂én Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₂énteros Proto-Germanic *anþeraz Proto-West Germanic *anþar Old English ōþer Middle English other Middle English another English another From Middle English another. By surface analysis, an + other.
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and another thing A. N. Other another country heard from another county heard from another day in paradise another matter another nail in someone's coffin another one bites the dust another pair of shoes another place another story another string to one's bow another thing at one time or another be another thing brother from another mother factitious disorder imposed on another find another gear for another thing for one reason or another have another thing coming have another think have another think coming have another thought coming
Pronoun
- 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
- One that is different from the current one.
- I saw one movie, but I think I will see another.
- I've thought about moving to another city at one time or another.
- One of a group of things of the same kind.
- His interests keep shifting from one thing to another.