ANOTHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does another mean? 

• ANOTHER (adjective)
  The adjective ANOTHER has 1 sense:

1. any of various alternatives; some other

  Familiarity information: ANOTHER used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANOTHER (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various alternatives; some other

Synonyms:

another; some other

Context example:

put it off to another (or some other) day

Similar:

other (not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied)

 Context examples 

"That's a horse of another color," he laughed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I then made another sign, that I wanted drink.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Said another way, the opposition can feel like two halves of an apple coming together to make a whole, or it can feel like a tug of war.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The fact that he has a picture-book under his arm shows that there is another child to be thought of.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But there is another way to make it float, which is to fill it with hot air.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Another day Chanticleer and Partlet agreed to go again to the mountains to eat nuts; and it was settled that all the nuts which they found should be shared equally between them.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

"How does he do it?" they demanded of one another.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are but preventing her from injuring another.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Another time he dropped a steel marlinspike from the mizzen crosstree.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Another night adventure. Renfield artfully waited until the attendant was entering the room to inspect. Then he dashed out past him and flew down the passage.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)