Between: Definition and part of speech

Between

  1. n. Intermediate time or space; interval.
  2. prep. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia.
  3. prep. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two.
  4. prep. Belonging in common to two; shared by both.
  5. prep. Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition between science and religion.
  6. prep. With relation to two, as involved in an act or attribute of which another is the agent or subject; as, to judge between or to choose between courses; to distinguish between you and me; to mediate between nations.
  7. prep. In intermediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity, or degree; as, between nine and ten o’clock.

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.

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