# another
## English
### Alternative forms

* anoda (Jamaica)
* anotha, anotha' (eye dialect, especially African-American Vernacular)
* anudda, anuddah (pronunciation spelling)
* nother (colloquial US, otherwise obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English another. By surface analysis, an +‎ other.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, unstressed form) IPA: /əˈnʌð.ə/
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* (Received Pronunciation, stressed form) IPA: /æˈnʌð.ə/
* (US, unstressed form) IPA: /əˈnʌð.ɚ/
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* (US, stressed form) IPA: /æˈnʌð.ɚ/, (proscribed, as if from a +‎ nother) /eɪˈnʌð.ɚ/
* (Northern England) IPA: /æˈnʊð.ə/
* Hyphenation: an‧oth‧er
* Rhymes: -ʌðə(ɹ)

### Determiner

another
* 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.
** 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.
* 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.
** 1983, Michael Ende, translated by Ralph Manheim, 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.
* 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.
** 1983, Michael Ende, translated by Ralph Manheim, The Neverending Story, →ISBN, page 53:But that is another story and will be told another time.

#### Usage notes

* As a fused head construction another may have a possessive another's (plural: others or possessive others'). 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. 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]."

#### Derived terms

* and another thing
* A. N. Other
* another country heard from
* another county heard from
* another day in paradise
* another nail in someone's coffin
* another pair of shoes
* another place
* another story
* another string to one's bow
* at one time or another
* be another thing
* brother from another mother
* 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
* if it's not one thing it's another
* in another world
* just another pretty face
* live on top of one another
* live to fight another day
* made for one another
* make fish of one and flesh of another
* make fish of one and fowl of another
* many another
* not just another pretty face
* one after another
* one another
* one bad turn deserves another
* one good turn deserves another
* one man's fish is another man's poison
* one man's fish is another man's poisson
* one man's loss is another man's gain
* one man's meat is another man's poison
* one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter
* one man's trash is another man's treasure
* one nail drives out another
* one thing after another
* one thing leads to another
* one thing led to another
* one way or another
* one with another
* one woman's trash is another woman's treasure
* one word leads to another
* play one against another
* sail on another board
* sister from another mister
* tell me another one
* tell us another
* tell us another one
* tomorrow is another day
* to put it another way
* when one door closes, another opens
* will the good of another

#### Related terms

* other

#### Descendants

* Jamaican Creole: anedda

#### Translations

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### Pronoun

another
* 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.
* One of a group of things of the same kind.
    His interests keep shifting from one thing to another.

### References

* ↑ Brians, Paul (2016 May 19) “a whole ’nother. Common Errors in English Usage and More”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, 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.”
* “another”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* on Earth, on earth

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* anoþer, a noþer

### Etymology

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

### Pronoun

another
* another

#### Descendants

* English: another, anoda (Jamaica), anotha, anotha' (eye dialect, especially African-American Vernacular), anudda, anuddah (pronunciation spelling), nother (colloquial US, otherwise obsolete)
** Jamaican Creole: anedda
* Yola: anoor

#### References

* “another”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.