another

UK /əˈnʌð.ə(ɹ)/ US /əˈnʌð.ə(ɹ)/
det 3pron 3

Definitions

det

1

One more further, in addition to the quantity by then; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.

Yes, I'd like another slice of cake, thanks.

Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;[…].

2

Not the same; different.

Do you know another way to do this job?

From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.

3

Any or some other, similar in likeness or in effect, instead.

One gold ingot is valued the same as another, but gemstones are valued individually.

But that is another story and will be told another time.

pron

1

An additional one of the same kind.

This napkin fell to the floor, could you please bring me another?

There is one sterling and here is another

2

One that is different from the current one.

I saw one movie, but I think I will see another.

3

One of a group of things of the same kind.

His interests keep shifting from one thing to another.

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