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another

EN[əˈnʌðə(ɹ)] [əˈnʌðɚ] [-ʌðə(r)]
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  • Another or variant may refer to:
  • anOther or Another Magazine, culture and fashion magazine
  • Another (novel), a Japanese horror novel and anime series
  • Another River, a river in Alaska, United States
  • A. N. Other, a pseudonym

    Definition of another in English Dictionary

  • PronounPREano-
    1. The additional one of the same kind.
      1. I saw one movie, but I think I will see another.
    2. One that is different from the current one.
      1. This napkin fell to the floor, could you please bring me another?
    3. One of the group of things of the same kind.
      1. His interests keep shifting from one thing to another.
  • Determiner
    1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.
      1. Yes, I'd like another slice of cake, thanks. ‎
    2. Not the same; different.
      1. Do you know another way to do this job? ‎
    3. Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; anyone else; someone else.
      1. He has never known another like her. ‎
  • More Examples
    1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
      • I was eager to get there, but I got stuck behind one Sunday driver after another on that trip.
      • They sold out of concert posters yesterday and won't get another shipment until next week.
      • Living on top of one another in a refugee camp is stressful.
    2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
      • Another method to predilate the microvascular bed in the skin is by local heating [6 ].
      • Another study conducted immunohistochemical analysis and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) for HER2 on 49 primary nonampullar small intestinal adenocarcinomas.
      • Another option exists for eliminating Tregs is anticytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA4) antibodies.
    3. Used in the Ending of Sentence
      • The word boo spelled backwards usually used when the word "boo!" has been claimed to be the property of another.
      • Historical writing proliferates in examples of tendentious accounts of national history, where the “whitewashing” of one history goes hand in hand with the “blackwashing” of another.
      • I figure this car has a few more years left in it and I intend to run it into the ground before purchasing another.
  • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
    1. Determiners
      • Pronouns
        • Indefinite pronouns
      Related Links:
      1. en another county heard from
      2. en another nail in one's coffin
      Source: Wiktionary
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      Meaning of another for the defined word.

      Grammatically, this word "another" is a determiner. It's also a pronoun, more specifically, an indefinite pronoun.
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