another
/əˈnʌð.ə(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.74 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
det
One more further, in addition to the quantity by then; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.
det
Not the same; different.
pron
An additional one of the same kind.
Example Sentences
- "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;[…]."
- "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."
- "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."
- "But that is another story and will be told another time."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-West Germanic *ain Old English ān Middle English an Proto-Indo-European *h₂én Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₂énteros Proto-Germanic *anþeraz Proto-West Germanic *anþar Old English ōþer Middle English other Middle English another English another From Middle English another. By surface analysis, an + other.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: another