Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




And   /ənd/  /ænd/   Listen
conjunction
And  conj.  
1.
A particle which expresses the relation of connection or addition. It is used to conjoin a word with a word, a clause with a clause, or a sentence with a sentence. Note: (a) It is sometimes used emphatically; as, "there are women and women," that is, two very different sorts of women. (b) By a rhetorical figure, notions, one of which is modificatory of the other, are connected by and; as, "the tediousness and process of my travel," that is, the tedious process, etc.; "thy fair and outward character," that is, thy outwardly fair character,
2.
In order to; used instead of the infinitival to, especially after try, come, go. "At least to try and teach the erring soul."
3.
It is sometimes, in old songs, a mere expletive. "When that I was and a little tiny boy."
4.
If; though. See An, conj. (Obs.) "As they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs."
And so forth, and others; and the rest; and similar things; and other things or ingredients. The abbreviation, etc. (et cetera), or &c., is usually read and so forth.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"And" Quotes from Famous Books



... the veteran on one occasion when he was superintending the fitting out of the galleys. "These dogs have gone back from whence they came, and they have left that creature, Muley Hassan, to do their will in Tunis. It is true that there is Mendoza and his thousand Spaniards in the Goletta, but did not Martin de Vargas hold the Penon here? And where is De Vargas, and in whose hands is the Penon now? We know from whence the garrisons of ...
— Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean • E. Hamilton Currey

... the couch, took up the child, and began to tuck about him the folds of her enveloping blanket. Raven moved to her side. He had an overwhelming sense of their being at one in the power of their resolution. If she would yield to his deliberate judgment! if only their resolutions ...
— Old Crow • Alice Brown

... I did not seem natural, and kissed me as being "too good, perhaps, to be well." My grandmother tried to speak, but ...
— Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories • M. T. W.

... a belated cyclist, reputable and harmless. We console ourselves with visions of 1915, when we hope to be mobilised, packed off to the Continent in motor-buses, and assigned to beats in Berlin (possibly renamed Berlinogradville City), while the Congress are rearranging ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 14, 1914 • Various

... the other side, who, during his opponent's explosive display of rhetorical gas and brimstone, had been holding an earnest consultation with Phillips (now also at hand with a disclosure which had been reserved for the present moment), then calmly rose, and said he had a statement to make, ...
— Gaut Gurley • D. P. Thompson


More quotes...



Copyright © 2025 Free-Translator.com