another(s = adj.all) some other - any of various alternatives; some other; "put it off to another (or some other) day"
1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. [1913 Webster]
"Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more." [1913 Webster]
"Would serve to scale another Hero's tower." [1913 Webster]
2. Not the same; different. [1913 Webster]
"He winks, and turns his lips another way." [1913 Webster]
3. Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; any one else; some one else. [1913 Webster]
" As a pronoun another may have a possessive another's, pl. others, poss. pl. other'. It is much used in opposition to one; as, one went one way, another another. It is also used with one, in a reciprocal sense; as, “love one another,” that is, let each love the other or others. “These two imparadised in one another's arms.”" Milton. [1913 Webster]
"Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth." [1913 Webster]
"While I am coming, another steppeth down before me." [1913 Webster]
another, adj. & pron.
--adj.
1 an additional; one more (have another cake; after another six months).
2 a person like or comparable to (another Callas).
3 a different (quite another matter).
4 some or any other (will not do another man's work).
--pron.
1 an additional one (have another).
2 a different one (take this book away and bring me another).
3 some or any other one (I love another).
4 Brit. an unnamed additional party to a legal action (X versus Y and another).
5 (also A. N. Other) a player unnamed or not yet selected.
Idiom:
another place Brit. the other House of Parliament (used in the Commons to refer to the Lords, and vice versa). such another another of the same sort.
Etymology:
ME f. AN + OTHER
N difference, variance, variation, variety, diversity, dissimilarity, disagreement, disparity, distinction, contradistinction, alteration, modification, permutation, moods and tenses, nice distinction, fine distinction, delicate distinction, subtle distinction, shade of difference, nuance, discrimination, differentia, different thing, something else, apple off another tree, another pair of shoes, horse of a different color, this that or the other, differing, different, diverse, heterogeneous, multifarious, polyglot, distinguishable, dissimilar, varied, modified, diversified, various, divers, all manner of, all kinds of, variform, daedal, other, another, not the same, unequal, unmatched, widely apart, poles apart, distinctive, characteristic, discriminative, distinguishing, incommensurable, incommensurate, differently, il y a fagots et fagots.
N repetition, iteration, reiteration, harping, recurrence, succession, run, battology, tautology, monotony, tautophony, rhythm, diffuseness, pleonasm, redundancy, chimes, repetend, echo, ritornello, burden of a song, refrain, rehearsal, rechauffe, rifacimento, recapitulation, cuckoo, reverberation, drumming, renewal, twice-told tale, old story, old song, second edition, new edition, reappearance, reproduction, recursion, periodicity, repeated, repetitional, repetitionary, recurrent, recurring, ever recurring, thick coming, frequent, incessant, redundant, pleonastic, monotonous, harping, iterative, recursive, unvaried, mocking, chiming, retold, aforesaid, aforenamed, above-mentioned, above-said, habitual, another, repeatedly, often, again, anew, over again, afresh, once more, ding-dong, ditto, encore, de novo, bis, da capo, again and again, over and over, over and over again, recursively, many times over, time and again, time after time, year after year, day by day, many times, several times, a number of times, many a time, full many a time, frequently, ecce iterum Crispinus, toujours perdrix, cut and come again, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, cantilenam eandem canis, nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum sit prius.