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EACH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does each mean?
• EACH (adjective)
The adjective EACH has 1 sense:
1. (used of count nouns) every one considered individually
Familiarity information: EACH used as an adjective is very rare.
• EACH (adverb)
The adverb EACH has 1 sense:
1. to or from every one of two or more (considered individually)
Familiarity information: EACH used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used of count nouns) every one considered individually
Context example:
each party is welcome
Similar:
all ((quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To or from every one of two or more (considered individually)
Synonyms:
apiece; each; for each one; from each one; to each one
Context example:
they received $10 each
Context examples
I can trace each of the busts now from the beginning.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One of these lads sat up each night in the stable, while the others slept in the loft.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My marriage had drifted us away from each other.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Our harness is good, for I have hung it in trees each night.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The pension from each family for the education and entertainment of a child, upon failure of due payment, is levied by the emperor’s officers.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
They were twin whirlwinds of hatred, revolving about each other monstrously.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Your partner will be in the spotlight and will have news for you that will involve each of you.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
John Thornton and Buck looked at each other.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
He and his wife, the old lady who had received me, looked at each other in a frightened sort of way.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Each of them was lying on at least four chairs, and had a large rough jacket on.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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