BETWEEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does between mean? 

• BETWEEN (adverb)
  The adverb BETWEEN has 2 senses:

1. in the interval

2. in between

  Familiarity information: BETWEEN used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BETWEEN (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In the interval

Synonyms:

between; betwixt

Context example:

dancing all the dances with little rest between

Sense 2

Meaning:

In between

Synonyms:

'tween; between

Context example:

two houses with a tree between

 Context examples 

This is particularly so in the region between Holdernesse Hall and the school.

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

Now, presuming that there was some understanding between Simpson and these gypsies, might he not have been leading the horse to them when he was overtaken, and may they not have him now?

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

I think that those seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the writer.

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

But then, again, he had seen them when they didn't; and he wondered if it was only in the evening that arms were taken, or only between husbands and wives and relatives.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

By good fortune he had been so well taught, that I was carried between his teeth without the least hurt, or even tearing my clothes.

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

Plan to keep a space of as many days as possible between the day Mercury goes retrograde and the date you act.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

When I managed to restore her she was as weak as water, and cried silently between long, painful struggles for breath.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Between gulps of the molten stuff I glanced down at my raw and bleeding chest and turned to the Scandinavian.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He came between him and the shirks he should have punished.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Storm followed storm, and between the storms there was the silence, broken only by the boom of the surf on the desolate shore, where the salt spray rimmed the beach with frozen white.

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