between
AdverbOpen English WordNet
a state or condition markedly different from the norm
Translations
Preposition in the position or interval that separates two things
- Spanish
- entre
- French
- entre
- German
- zwischen
- Italian
- tra
- Portuguese
- entre
- Turkish
- arasında
- Russian
- ме́жду méždu
- Arabic
- بين bayna
- Chinese
- 在…之间 zài…zhījiān
- Japanese
- …の間に no aida ni
33 more languages
- Dutch
- tussen
- Polish
- pomiędzy
- Swedish
- mellan
- Greek
- ανάμεσα anámesa
- Korean
- 사이에 saie
- Indonesian
- di antara
- Vietnamese
- giữa
- Hungarian
- között
- Portuguese (PT)
- entre
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 在…之間 zài…zhījiān
- Albanian
- midis
- Breton
- etre
- Catalan
- entre
- Czech
- mezi
- Danish
- mellem
- Esperanto
- inter
- Estonian
- vahel
- Finnish
- välissä
- Georgian
- შორის šoris
- Hebrew
- בֵּין ben
- Icelandic
- á milli
- Kurdish
- di navbera ... de
- Latvian
- starp
- Lithuanian
- tarp
- Norwegian
- mellom
- Romanian
- între
- Scottish Gaelic
- eadar
- Serbo-Croatian
- između
- Slovak
- medzi
- Slovenian
- med
- Swahili
- kati ya
- Welsh
- rhwng
- Yiddish
- צווישן tsvishn
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OE. bytwene, bitweonen, AS. betweónan, betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twā two, akin to Goth. tweihnai two apiece. See Twain, and cf. Atween, Betwixt.
1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia.
2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two.
If things should go so between them.— Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon
3. Belonging in common to two; shared by both.
Castor and Pollux with only one soul between them.— John Locke
4. Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition between science and religion.
An intestine struggle, open or secret, between authority and liberty.— David Hume
5. With relation to two, as involved in an act or attribute of which another is the agent or subject; as, to judge between or to choose between courses; to distinguish between you and me; to mediate between nations.
6. In intermediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity, or degree; as, between nine and ten o'clock.
Between decks, the space, or in the space, between the decks of a vessel. — Between ourselves, Between you and me, Between themselves, in confidence; with the understanding that the matter is not to be communicated to others.
Synonyms: Between, Among. Between etymologically indicates only two; as, a quarrel between two men or two nations; to be between two fires, etc. It is however extended to more than two in expressing a certain relation.
I... hope that between public business, improving studies, and domestic pleasures, neither melancholy nor caprice will find any place for entrance.— Dr. Samuel Johnson
Among implies a mass or collection of things or persons, and always supposes more than two; as, the prize money was equally divided among the ship's crew.
Intermediate time or space; interval. poetic & rare William Shakespeare
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54