Another
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /əˈnʌðə(ɹ)/
- US IPA: /əˈnʌðɚ/
- Rhymes: -ʌðə(r)
- Hyphenation: an + oth + er
Alternative forms
- anoda Jamaican English
- anotha, anotha' AAVE- eye dialect
Determiner
another- One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.
- 2013, Philip J. Bushnell, Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance, 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.
- Yes, I'd like another slice of cake, thanks.
- Not the same; different.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp Chapter 22, 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.
- 1979, Micheal Ende, The Neverending Story, p.53 , ISBN 0140386335But that is another story and will be told another time.
- 2013, Katrina G. Claw, Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm, 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.
- Do you know another way to do this job?
- Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; anyone else; someone else.He has never known another like her.
Usage notes
As a fused head construction another may have a possessive another's (plural: others, or possessive plural 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.
Sometimes, the world "whole" is inserted into another by the common process of tmesis, giving: "a whole nother." This is a colloquialism which some recommend avoiding in formal writing.
The prescribed alternatives are "a whole other" or a "another whole."
There may be ambiguity: "I need another chair." may mean "My chair needs to be replaced." or "I need an additional chair I need to keep my existing chair."