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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... as our practical interest requires us to regard it, we become unable to perceive the true evolution, the radical becoming. Of becoming we perceive only states, of duration only instants, and even when we speak of duration and of becoming, it is of another thing that we are thinking. Such is the most striking of the two illusions we wish to examine. It consists in supposing that we can think the unstable by means of the stable, the moving by ...

— Creative Evolution • Henri Bergson

... Society seems to call attention to another, namely, the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, the volume of whose Proceedings for 1852 is now before us, and affords satisfactory proof that the zeal and energy of its members, of which it numbers nearly five hundred, ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 • Various

... few mentally abnormal persons in the community. One may designate three persons as unbalanced, two of them unmarried women; and another such as probably insane, though residing at home. But even the aged do not die first in the head. ...

— Quaker Hill - A Sociological Study • Warren H. Wilson

... pounds to help this girl who preferred another man was no less in his eyes than a fraud and mockery that made her denial a maddening and outrageous disgrace to him. And this though he was evidently passionately in ...

— Ann Veronica • H. G. Wells

... of the duties and position of the physician and the skill with which he manipulated the materials that were at hand, constituted two important characteristics of Hippocratic medicine. Another was the recognition that disease, as well as health, is a process governed by what we call natural laws, learned by observation, and indicating the direction of recovery. These views of the 'natural history of disease' led to habits of minute observation and careful interpretation ...

— Valere Aude - Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration • Louis Dechmann

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