both - English word #144

Translation

The two people or things together, not just one of them.

Word origin

From Old Norse bathir, meaning the two, which replaced an older Old English form.

Both children are school today.

"Both" means the two children together.

both books.

Here "both" shows you like the two of them, not just one.

both party.

"Both" means the two of us together.

two

The number 2, one more than one.

all

The whole amount or every one of a group of things or people.

each

Every one of two or more things or people, thought of one at a time.

other

A different one, or the second of two, not this one.

same

Not different, but exactly alike or the very one already mentioned.

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