BOTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does both mean? 

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

1. (used with count nouns) two considered together; the two

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOTH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used with count nouns) two considered together; the two

Context example:

both girls are pretty

Similar:

some ((quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity)

 Context examples 

The same afternoon saw us both at Hurlstone.

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

Both he and it were of the sea.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

We have this Beppo as a common factor, both in Kennington and in Kensington, so that is worth a ten-mile drive.

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

You can travel near or far or find a way to do both.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Dorothy reached up both arms and lifted the figure off the pole, for, being stuffed with straw, it was quite light.

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

These schools are of several kinds, suited to different qualities, and both sexes.

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

Holding his weight by his arms, and in mid-air doubling his body at the hips, he let fly with both feet.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

In places the water dashed against their knees, and both men staggered for footing.

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

From the hearty way that both Thomas and his wife laughed at the joke I could see that it had done service before, and that the whole explanation was simply an elaborate sell.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Dave had bitten through both of Sol-leks’s traces, and was standing directly in front of the sled in his proper place.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)