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and

Pronunciation: /ˈænd/

The English word “and” has 19 meanings listed here.

conjunction

  1. Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
  2. Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
  3. Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
  4. Yet; but.
  5. Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (now dated); connecting shillings to pence in a monetary quantity (now historical); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often omitted in US); to connect fractions to wholes.
  6. Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
  7. Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
  8. Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
  9. Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
  10. Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, go and try.
  11. Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; “as well as other”.
  12. Used to combine numbers in addition; plus (with singular or plural verb).
  13. If; provided that.
  14. As if, as though.
  15. Connecting two well-formed formulas to create a new well-formed formula that requires it to only be true when both of the two formulas are true.

noun

  1. In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
  2. Breath.
  3. Sea smoke; steam fog.

verb

  1. To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English and, an, from Old English and, ond, end, from Proto-West Germanic *andi, from Proto-Germanic *andi, *anþi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti (“facing opposite, near, in front of, before”). Cognate with Scots an (“and”), North Frisian än (“and”), Saterland Frisian un (“and”), West Frisian en (“and”), Dutch en, ende (“and”), German und (“and”), German Low German on, un…

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