Alternative

1. n. A choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among.
2. a. Offering a choice of two things.
3. a. Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.
4. a. Alternate; reciprocal.
5. n. An offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left.
6. n. Either of two things or propositions offered to one’s choice. Thus when two things offer a choice of one only, the two things are called alternatives.
7. n. The course of action or the thing offered in place of another.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.