Deeper Dive: another

another pronoun or adjective [An a, one + other.]

1. 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. Shak.

Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak.
2. Not the same; different.
He winks, and turns his lips another way. Shak.
3. Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; any one else; some one else.
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth. Prov. xxvii. 2.

While I am coming, another steppeth down before me. John v. 7.
☞ 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.” Milton.



-- Webster's unabridged 1913





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