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Universal Words 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. 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