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either

  suomi-englanti sanakirja

either englannista suomeksi

  1. kumpikin, molemmat

  2. jompikumpi

  3. myöskään, -kaan, -kään

  4. joko

either englanniksi

  1. Each of two. (defdate)

  2. * 1936, Djuna Barnes, ''Nightwood'', Faber & Faber 2007, p. 31:

  3. *: Her hands, long and beautiful, lay on either side of her face.

  4. One or the other of two. (defdate)

  5. * {{quote-news|passage=You can't be a table and a chair. You're either a Jew or a gentile.

  6. (obsolet) Both, each of two (people or things).

  7. * 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, ''Le Morte Darthur'', Book VII:

  8. *: Than ayther departed to theire tentis and made hem redy to horsebacke as they thought beste.

  9. * (RQ:Spenser Faerie Queen), III.i:

  10. *: And either vowd with all their power and wit, / To let not others honour be defaste ....

  11. One or other of two people or things.

  12. (context) as well

  13. : ''I don't like him and I don't like her either.''

  14. Introduces the first of two options, the second of which is introduced by "or".

  15. : ''Either you eat your dinner or you go to your room.''

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