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Definition of Nother
1. conj. Neither; nor.
Definition of Nother
1. Pronoun. (obsolete except UK dialect Caribbean) Neither. ¹
2. Adjective. (obsolete except UK dialect Caribbean) Neither. ¹
3. Adverb. (obsolete) Nor. ¹
4. Pronoun. (obsolete) Another. ¹
5. Adjective. (obsolete except colloquial US) Different, other. (Now usually in (term a whole nother)) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nother
1. different [adj] - See also: different
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nother
Literary usage of Nother
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report and Transactions (1882)
"Item—iij hole sutes of vestments, one of grene, a nother of ... that is to say,
one of grene and red with birds, a nother of whit damaske with a red office, ..."
2. England in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth ...: A Dialogue Between by Thomas Starkey, William Forrest (1878)
"... уз a nother grete faute wych ys [•Pago 193.] the ground of al other almost,
... Ye, and yet a nother thyng. Let hyt be they might be that they ..."
3. The Diary of Philip Hone, 1828-1851 by Philip Hone (1889)
"A nother year is passed, and its successor is ushered in •*••*• pleasantly, and
with every inducement (so far as the weather is concerned) for pedestrians ..."
4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1902)
".-\nother ground of demurrer ¡я that the replication failed to aver that the
beneficiary of the recovery named in the present suit is the same as that named ..."
5. The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist,: A Quarterly Journal and Review edited by Llewellyn Frederick William Jewitt, John Charles Cox, John Romilly Allen (1893)
"... a Deacon and Subdeacon belonging to the same / It' a nother of Clothe of ...
things there vnto belonging for Deacon and Subdeacon It' a nother vestm' of ..."
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