and
Meanings
- As a coordinating conjunction; expressing two elements to be taken together or in addition to each other.
- Used simply to connect two noun phrases, adjectives or adverbs.
- Simply connecting two clauses or sentences.
- Introducing a clause or sentence which follows on in time or consequence from the first.
- Yet; but.
- Used to connect certain numbers: connecting units when they precede tens (now dated); connecting shillings to pence in a monetary quantity (now historical); connecting tens and units to hundreds, thousands etc. (now often omitted in US); to connect fractions to wholes.
- Used to connect more than two elements together in a chain, sometimes to stress the number of elements.
- Connecting two identical elements, with implications of continued or infinite repetition.
- Introducing a parenthetical or explanatory clause.
- Introducing the continuation of narration from a previous understood point; also used alone as a question: ‘and so what?’.
- Used to connect two verbs where the second is dependent on the first: ‘to’. Used especially after come, go and try.
- Introducing a qualitative difference between things having the same name; "as well as other".
- In rhythm, the second half of a divided beat.
- Breath.
- Sea smoke; steam fog.
- To breathe; whisper; devise; imagine.
- Alternative form of ∧, the conjunction operator.
- The binary operator and, only true if both of two inputs is true. In infix notation.
- To combine (a value) with another value by means of this operator.
- Initialism of airplane nose down.
Pronunciation
Word forms
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti Proto-Germanic *andi Old English and Middle English and English and Inherited from Middle English and, an, from Old English and, ond, end, from Proto-West Germanic *andi, from Proto-Germanic *andi, *anþi, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti (“facing opposite, near, in front of, before”). Cognate with Scots an (“and”), North Frisian än (“and”), Saterland Frisian un (“and”), West Frisian en (“and”), Dutch en, ende (“and”), German und (“and”), German Low German on, un (“and”), Luxembourgish an (“and”), Vilamovian an, ana (“and”), Yiddish און (un), אונ (un), אונד (und), אונ׳ (un', “and”), Danish end (“still; ever; even”), Faroese enn (“still, yet”), Icelandic en (“and”), enn (“still, yet”), Norwegian Bokmål enn (“and”), Norwegian Nynorsk en, enn (“and”), Swedish än (“still, yet”), Albanian edhe (“and”) (dialectal ênde, ênne), ende (“still, yet, therefore”), Latin ante (“opposite, in front of”), Ancient Greek ἀντί (antí, “opposite, facing”). Doublet of an ("if").