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/ənˈəðər/ Listen

pronoun

another pron., adj.

One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. "Another yet! a seventh! I 'll see no more." "Would serve to scale another Hero's tower."

Not the same; different. "He winks, and turns his lips another way."

Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; any one else; some one else. "Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth." "While I am coming, another steppeth down before me." Note: As a pronoun another may have a possessive another's, pl. others, poss. pl. 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. "These two imparadised in one another's arms."

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