determiner, pronoun, adverb
determiner, pronoun
1 one or the other of two; it does not matter which:
You can park on either side of the street. * You can keep one of the photos. Either of them-whichever you like. * There are two types of qualification-either is acceptable. -< NEITHER
2 each of two:
The offices on either side were empty. * There's a door at either end of the corridor.
Part of speech: adverb
1 used after negative phrases to state that a feeling or situation is similar to one already mentioned:
Pete can't go and I can't either. * (AmE, informal) 'I don't like it.' 'Me either.' (= Neither do I).
2 used to add extra information to a statement:
I know a good Italian restaurant. It's not far from here, either.
3 (either...or...) used to show a choice of two things:
Well, I think she's either Russian or Polish. * I'm going to buy either a camera or a CD player with the money. * Either he could not come or he did not want to.
compareOR -> NEITHER
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for either is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is either a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, either is tagged as adverb.
Does either appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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