another
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnʌð.ə/
note: Received Pronunciation, stressed form
ipa: /ænˈʌð.ə/
ipa: /əˈnʌð.ɚ/
note: US, stressed form
ipa: /ænˈʌð.ɚ/
note: as if from a + nother
ipa: /eɪˈnʌð.ɚ/
note: Northern England, stressed form
ipa: /ænˈʊð.ə/
ipa: /əˈnʊð.ə/
note: Indic
ipa: /ənəˈd̪ʱɜ(r)/
rhymes: -ʌðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: anoda
form: anotha
form: anotha'
form: anudda
form: anuddah
form: nother
Etymology: From Middle English another. By surface analysis, an + other.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, I'd like another slice of cake, thanks.
text: 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;[…].
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist:
glosses: One more further, in addition to the quantity by then; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.
examples: text: Do you know another way to do this job?
text: 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.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
text: But that is another story and will be told another time.
ref: 1983, Michael Ende, translated by Ralph Manheim, The Neverending Story, →ISBN, page 53:
text: 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.
ref: 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:
glosses: Not the same; different.
examples: text: One gold ingot is valued the same as another, but gemstones are valued individually.
text: But that is another story and will be told another time.
ref: 1983, Michael Ende, translated by Ralph Manheim, The Neverending Story, →ISBN, page 53:
glosses: Any or some other, similar in likeness or in effect, instead.
Derived terms: 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 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
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
somehow or another
some something or another
something or another
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