again

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   anew or once more

   They tried again, and finally succeeded.

2. 2
   adv

   Another time: indicating a repeat of an action.

   I enjoyed it so much I went again the next day.

3. 3
   adv

   Back (to a former place or state).

   We need to bring the old customs to life again.

4. 4
   adv

   Over and above a factor of one.

   This stick is quite long, but that other one is half as long again.

5. 5
   adv

   Used metalinguistically, with the repetition being in the discussion, or in the linguistic or pragmatic context of the discussion, rather than in the subject of discussion.

   Great, thanks again!

6. 6
   adv

   Back in the reverse direction, or to an original starting point.

   Bring us word again.

7. 7
   adv

   In return, as a reciprocal action; back.

   So women are never angrie, but to the end a man should againe be angrie with them, therein imitating the lawes of Love.

8. 8
   adv

   In any other place.

   There is not, in the world again, such a spring and seminary of brave military people as in England, Scotland, and Ireland.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁én Proto-Germanic *in Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰengʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *ganganąder.? Proto-Germanic *gagin Proto-Germanic *in gagin Proto-West Germanic *in gagin Old English onġēan Middle English agayn English again From Middle English agayn, from Old English onġēan (“against, again”), from Proto-West Germanic *in gagin, from Proto-Germanic *in gagin. Cognate with German entgegen (“contrary to”), North Frisian ijen (“against”), Danish igen (“again”), Swedish igen (“again”), and Norwegian Bokmål igjen (“again”), and Icelandic í gegnum (“through”). By surface…