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/əˈnʌð.ə(ɹ)/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
detOne more further, in addition to the quantity by then; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.
detNot the same; different.
Sentence Examples
I told them to send me another ticket.
Can it be phrased in another way?
She wanted to avoid another confrontation with her father.
CEFR Practice Quiz
After finishing his first cup of coffee, he immediately asked for ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I would like ____ cup of tea, please, if you have any left in the pot.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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:
"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:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
After finishing his first cup of coffee, he immediately asked for ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I would like ____ cup of tea, please, if you have any left in the pot.