another meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

another

det

/əˈnʌð.ə(ɹ)/ · /ænˈʌð.ə(ɹ)/

Etymology From Middle English another. By surface analysis, an + other.

One more further, in addition to the quantity by then; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.

Yes, I'd like another slice of cake, thanks.
Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;[…].1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0016:

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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.2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist:

Not the same; different.

Do you know another way to do this job?
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.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

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But that is another story and will be told another time.1983, Michael Ende, translated by Ralph Manheim, The Neverending Story, →ISBN, page 53:
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.2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:

Any or some other, similar in likeness or in effect, instead.

One gold ingot is valued the same as another, but gemstones are valued individually.
But that is another story and will be told another time.1983, Michael Ende, translated by Ralph Manheim, The Neverending Story, →ISBN, page 53:

Derived terms: 67 terms
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Related terms: other

another

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Etymology From Middle English another. By surface analysis, an + other.

An additional one of the same kind.

This napkin fell to the floor, could you please bring me another?
There is one sterling and here is another

One that is different from the current one.

I saw one movie, but I think I will see another.
I've thought about moving to another city at one time or another.

One of a group of things of the same kind.

His interests keep shifting from one thing to another.