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another (iou)



another pronoun & adjective sing. (in mod. usage also classed as a determiner). ME.
[from AN adjective (see A adjective) + OTHER adjective. In two words as late as 16. Cf. NOTHER adjective2, 'NOTHER.]
A second, further, additional (one, specified number (of)). ME.
ask me another: see ASK verb. not give another thought to: see THOUGHT noun. such another another of the same sort. tell me another: see TELL verb. you're another colloq.: applying an accusation to the person who makes it; also as a vaguely contemptuous retort.
F. M. Ford At meals she would feel an intolerable desire to drink a glass of wine, and then another and then a third. S. Barstow Another five minutes goes by while he reckons to look it over. A. Thwaite A stream, a fence, a hedge, another fence.
b. A second in likeness, character, or attributes. L16.
Yeats Another Troy must rise and set, Another lineage feed the crow, Another Argo's painted prow Drive to a flashier bauble yet.
A different (one, specified number (of)); some or any other. ME.
one and another, one another, one with another: see ONE adjective etc.. one way and another: see WAY noun.
Saki Do you suppose we shall all get appropriate punishments in another world for our sins in this? V. Woolf Whose day had slipped past in one quick doing after another. R. G. Collingwood A patron who buys a picture of a fox-hunt or a covey of partridges does not buy it because it represents that fox-hunt or that covey and not another. G. Greene He'd got to close her mouth one way or another. D. du Maurier I am not she who left him five minutes ago...I am another woman, older, more mature. R. P. Warren Two men, the one who had fired the shot and another,..ran to the fallen man. T. S. Eliot One year is a year of rain, Another a year of dryness. I. Murdoch Well, I'll be off. I can easily see Catherine another time. R. West George Willoughby, like many another naval officer, had his reasons for liking a quiet mount.
Special collocations & comb.: anothergates adjective (attrib.) [from genit. of GATE noun2] = anotherguess below. anotherguess adjective (attrib.) arch. [alt. of anothergates above: cf. GUESS adjective] of another sort or kind. another place the other House of Parliament (used in the Commons to refer to the Lords, and vice versa).