between
between is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 6 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two. If things should go so between them. Bacon.
- 2.Belonging in common to two; shared by both. Castor and Pollux with only one soul between them. Locke.
- 3.Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition between science and religion. An intestine struggle, open or secret, between authority and liberty. Hume.
- 4.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.
- 5.In intermediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity, or degree; as, between nine and ten o'clock. Between decks, the space, or in the space, between the decks of a vessel. -- Between ourselves, Between you and me, Between themselves, in confidence; with the understanding that the matter is not to be communicated to others. Between etymologically indicates only two; as, a quarrel between two men or two nations; to be between two fires, etc. It is however extended to more than two in expressing a certain relation. I . . . hope that between public business, improving studies, and domestic pleasures, neither melancholy nor caprice will find any place for entrance. Johnson. Among implies a mass or collection of things or persons, and always supposes more than two; as, the prize money was equally divided among the ship's crew.
- 6.Intermediate time or space; interval. [Poetic & R.] Shak.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abra
- absence
- abysm
- abyss
- all
- almost
- and
- any
- barranca
- bite
- blue
- breach
- breachy
- break
- bridle
- button
- caesura
- canon
- cave
- chap
- chasm
- chink
- cleft
- close
- clove
- concealment
- costive
- costiveness
- counsel
- crack
- cranny
- creek
- crevasse
- crevice
- cull
- curt
- curtness
- cut
- decimate
- decimation
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is between.
- What is used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two. If things should go so between them. Bacon called?
- What is belonging in common to two; shared by both. Castor and Pollux with only one soul between them. Locke called?
- What is intermediate time or space; interval. [Poetic & R.] Shak called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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