each

Adjective · Adverb

Synonyms: each(a)to each one for each one from each one apiece

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

(used of count nouns) every one considered individually“each person is mortal”“each party is welcome”Synonyms: each(a)

Adverb (1)

to or from every one of two or more (considered individually)“they received $10 each”Synonyms: to each one for each one from each one apiece

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Each \Each\ ([=e]ch), a. or a. pron. [OE. eche, [ae]lc, elk, ilk, AS. [ae]lc; [=a] always + gel[imac]c like; akin to OD. iegelik, OHG. [=e]ogil[imac]h, MHG. iegel[imac]ch, G. jeglich. [root]209. See 3d Aye, Like, and cf. Either, Every, Ilk.]

1.Every one of the two or more individuals composing a number of objects, considered separately from the rest. It is used either with or without a following noun; as, each of you or each one of you. "Each of the combatants." --Fielding. [1913 Webster]

Note: To each corresponds other. "Let each esteem other better than himself." Each other, used elliptically for each the other. It is our duty to assist each other; that is, it is our duty, each to assist the other, each being in the nominative and other in the objective case. [1913 Webster]

It is a bad thing that men should hate each other; but it is far worse that they should contract the habit of cutting one another's throats without hatred.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]

Let each His adamantine coat gird well.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

In each cheek appears a pretty dimple.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

Then draw we nearer day by day, Each to his brethren, all to God.— Keble.[1913 Webster]

The oak and the elm have each a distinct character.— Gilpin.[1913 Webster]

2.Every; -- sometimes used interchangeably with every. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

I know each lane and every alley green.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

In short each man's happiness depends upon himself.— Sterne.[1913 Webster]

Note: This use of each for every, though common in Scotland and in America, is now un-English. --Fitzed. Hall.

Syn: See Every. [1913 Webster]