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Either

//ˈaɪ.ðə// adv, conj, det, pron

Definitions

Adverb

1
As well. conjunctive, not-comparable
"I don't like him, and I don't like her either."

Adverb

1
after a negative statement used as an intensive meaning something like ‘likewise’ or ‘also’ wordnet

Conjunction

1
Introduces the first of two (or occasionally more) options or possibilities, the second (or last) of which is introduced by “or”.
"Either you eat your dinner or you go to your room."

Determiner

1
Any one (of two).
"You can have it in either colour."
2
Each of two; both.
"There is a locomotive at either end of the train, one pulling and the other pushing."
3
Any one (of more than two). often, proscribed
"I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called “A Voyage round the world.”"

Pronoun

1
One or the other of two people or things.
"He made me two offers, but I did not accept either."
2
Both, each of two or more. obsolete
"Scarce a palm of ground could be gotten by either of the three."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English either, from Old English ǣġhwæþer, from Proto-West Germanic *aiw + *gahwaþar. Akin to Old Saxon eogihwethar, iahwethar (Low German jeed); Old Dutch *iogewether, *iowether, *iother (Dutch ieder); Old High German eogihwedar, iegihweder, ieweder (German jeder).

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