another Meaning, Definition & Usage

adjective satellite any of various alternatives; some other
some other.
- put it off to another (or some other) day

An a, one + other.

One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.
Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak.

Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak.
Not the same; different.
He winks, and turns his lips another way. Shak.
Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; any one else; some one else.
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth. Prov. xxvii. 2.

While I am coming, another steppeth down before me. John v. 7.
✍ As a pronoun another may have a possessive another's, pl. others, poss. pl. other'. It is much used in opposition to one; as, one went one way, another another. It is also used with one, in a reciprocal sense; as, "love one another," that is, let each love the other or others. "These two imparadised in one another's arms." Milton.