EACH OTHER Definition & Meaning

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each other

pronoun

each the other; one another (used as a compound reciprocal pronoun):
to strike at each other; to hold each other's hands; to love each other.

each other

pronoun

used when the action, attribution, etc, is reciprocal
furious with each other

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Usage Note

Although some insist that each other be used only in reference to two ( The two candidates respected each other ) and one another in reference to three or more ( The three nations threaten one another ), in standard practice they are interchangeable. Each other is not restricted to two, nor is one another restricted to three or more. The possessive of each other is each other's; the possessive of one another is one another's.

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Usage

Each other and one another are interchangeable in modern British usage

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of each other¹

before 1000; Middle English; Old English. See each, other

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Idioms and Phrases

Also, one another . Each one the other, one the other, as in The boys like each other , or The birds were fighting one another over the crumbs . Both of these phrases indicate a reciprocal relationship or action between the subjects preceding ( the boys, the birds ). Formerly, many authorities held that each other should be confined to a relationship between two subjects only and one another used when there are more than two. Today most do not subscribe to this distinction, which was never strictly observed anyway. [Late 1300s] Also see at each other's throats .

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Example Sentences

“We can’t go out there and do battle if we don’t take care of ourselves and each other,” she said at a national conference of Black women, including business owners and politicians, at an oceanfront resort in Dana Point.

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“Our commitment to lifting each other up, lifting up our community, lifting up our country has not changed,” Harris said.

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The businessman told me: "A lot of the families, especially those of wounded and martyred fighters, are totally dependent on Hezbollah. These people won't disengage from Hezbollah immediately… Without a plan, it would be a recipe for internal conflict. It would drive Lebanese to fight against each other".

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But when the two see each other again, all these years later, the energy between them is charged.

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Let’s just be real with each other.

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