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Alternately: Definition and part of speech

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Alternately

  1. adv. By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.
  2. adv. In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.

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.

Alternation: Definition and part of speech

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Alternation

  1. n. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister.
  2. n. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.
  3. n. Permutation.

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.

Alternative: Definition and part of speech

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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.

Alternatively: Definition and part of speech

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Alternatively

  1. adv. In the manner of alternatives, or that admits the choice of one out of two things.

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.

Alternativeness: Definition and part of speech

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Alternativeness

  1. n. The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.

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.

Althea: Definition and part of speech

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Althea

  1. n. An ornamental shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow family.
  2. n. A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.

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.