adv
Meaning 1
For one; apiece; per.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- The apples cost 50 cents each.
Meaning relationships
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adv
For one; apiece; per.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Individually; separately; used in a sentence with a plural subject to indicate that the action or state described by the verb applies to all members of the described group individually, rather than collectively to the entire group.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
det
All; every; qualifying a singular noun, indicating all examples of the thing so named seen as individual or separate items (compare every).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
An individual item: the least quantitative unit in a grouping.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: operations
Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
pron
Every one/thing individually or one by one.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adverb
to or from every one of two or more (considered individually)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: to each one, for each one, from each one, apiece
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Middle English eche, elche, ilch, from Old English ǣlċ, contraction of ǣġhwelċ. Comparable to aye + alike. Compare Scots ilk, elk (“each, every”), Saterland Frisian älk (“each”), West Frisian elk, elts (“each”), Dutch elk (“each”), Low German elk, ellik (“each”), German Low German elk, elke (“each, every”), German jeglicher (“any”). By surface analysis, Old English ā + which.
Across languages
167 source translations are retained for this English entry.