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Webster 1913 Edition
Nother
Noth′er
,c
onj.
Neither; nor.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Definition 2025
nother
nother
English
Pronoun
nother
Adjective
nother (not comparable)
Adverb
nother (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Nor.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, Bk.VII:
- Than the quene seyde […] she wyst nat how, nother in what manere.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur, Bk.VII:
Etymology 2
Variant of an other, another, influenced by re-analysis as a nother.
Pronoun
nother
- (obsolete) Another.
Adjective
nother (not comparable)
- (largely obsolete outside the US phrase a whole nother) Different, other.
- 2015, LT Wolf, The World King (fiction), ISBN 978-1-312-37454-6:
- He has said elfsheen four nother ways — elfsheen, elfshine, elfshone, elfshyne.