Etimology
From Middle English another, equivalent to an + other.
determiner
another
One more/further, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.
Not the same; different.
Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; anyone else; someone else.
Examples
Yes, I'd like another slice of cake, thanks.
Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].
Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
Do you know another way to do this job?
From another point of view, it was a place without a soul. The well-to-do had hearts of stone; the rich were brutally bumptious; the Press, the Municipality, all the public men, were ridiculously, vaingloriously self-satisfied.
But that is another story and will be told another time.
In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
He has never known another like her.
Related words
related terms
other
pronoun
another
An additional one of the same kind.
One that is different from the current one.
One of a group of things of the same kind.
Examples
This napkin fell to the floor, could you please bring me another?
There is one sterling and here is another
I saw one movie, but I think I will see another.
His interests keep shifting from one thing to another.