either
About 146.73 uses per million words.
Meaning
- determiner Any one (of two).
You can have it in either colour.
- determiner Each of two; both. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
There is a locomotive at either end of the train, one pulling and the other pushing.
- determiner Any one (of more than two).
- pronoun One or the other of two people or things.
He made me two offers, but I did not accept either.
- pronoun Both, each of two or more.
- adverb As well.
I don't like him, and I don't like her either.
- conjunction Introduces the first of two (or occasionally more) options or possibilities, the second (or last) of which is introduced by "or".
Either you eat your dinner or you go to your room.
Similar words
moreover also furthermore anymore some whatsoever too alternatively any already
Often followed by
the of in side by to a as case
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