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adverb

once more; some other time; afresh; in addition: Will you spell your name over again, please?

in an additional case or example; moreover; besides; furthermore.

on the other mitt: It might happen, and once again it might not.

back; in render; in reply: to reply again.

to the aforementioned place or person: to return again.

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Idioms virtually over again

again and once again, with frequent repetition; often: They went over the aforementioned arguments once more and again.

every bit much over again, twice as much: She earns as much over again as I practice.

Origin of again

earlier 900; Middle English agayn, ageyn, Sometime English language ongegn reverse (to), equivalent to on on, in (see a-¹) + gegn straight; cognate with Former Loftier High german ingagan, Old Norse igegn

how to pronounce again

Past far the most mutual pronunciation of again, in all parts of the United States, is [uh-gen], /əˈgɛn/, with the aforementioned vowel heard in yet and pep. The pronunciation [uh-geyn], /əˈgeɪn/, rhyming with pain, occurs importantly in the Atlantic states. Again said equally [uh-gin], /əˈgɪn/, with the vowel of pit or sip, or with a vowel somewhere betwixt [eastward] /ɛ/ and [i], /ɪ/, is the mutual pronunciation in much of the Southward, where [e] /ɛ/ and [i] /ɪ/ tend to become neutralized, or more like one another, earlier [m] /1000/ and [north], /n/, leading to a lack of noticeable distinction between such pairs equally pen and pin, x and tin.

Words nearby again

ag, aga, Agabus, Agadir, Agag, again, over again and again, confronting, against all odds, confronting one's better judgment, confronting one'south will

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Words related to once more

anew, over, repeatedly, also, farther, then, afresh, anon, bis, by and by, come again, encore, freshly, newly, over and over, recurrently, additionally, besides, furthermore, moreover

How to use once more in a sentence

• Meanwhile, almost exactly 30 years after the trial, the judge left his habitation to board a steamboat and was never heard from over again.

• Again, the difference can seem subtle and sound more like splitting hairs, but the difference is important.

• And then they came upward against a police patrol on mountain bicycles, which again led to more than shooting, without injuries.

• At a press briefing today with Scalise, Speaker Boehner again defended him.

• We take enough time off in betwixt so that our batteries go recharged and nosotros become inspired again.

• Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off once more.

• And that was that if he and his married woman were to e'er live together again and be happy, the family were to be kept out of it.

• Earlier he could finish the sentence the Pigsty-keeper said snappishly, "Well, drop out again—quick!"

• "Meliorate so," was the Senora'southward sole reply; and she cruel once more into notwithstanding deeper, more perplexed thought nigh the hidden treasure.

• Before the outlaw can comply with this pocket-size request the horn sounds once more.

British Lexicon definitions for again

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adverb

some other or second time; once more; anew he had to first once more

once again in a previously experienced or encountered place, state, or condition he is ill once more; he came back again

in addition to the original corporeality, quantity, etc (esp in the phrases equally much once again; half as much again)

(sentence modifier) on the other hand he might come and and then again he might not

too; also she is beautiful and, again, intelligent

primitive in reply; back he answered again to the questioning voice

again and again continuously; repeatedly

(used with a negative) Caribbean area any more than; any longer I don't eat pumpkin again

sentence connector

moreover; furthermore again, it could exist said that he is non dead

Give-and-take Origin for again

Old English ongegn reverse to, from a- ² + gegn straight

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Idioms and Phrases with again

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In improver to the idiom start with again

• again and again

too see:

• come up again
• practise something over over again
• always and again
• every now and once again
• hither someone goes over again
• now and once again
• off and on (off over again, on again)
• once again
• something else again
• time and fourth dimension again
• you can say that over again

The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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