The Collaborative International Dictionary
Between \Be*tween"\, prep. [OE. bytwene, bitweonen, AS. betwe['o]nan, betwe['o]num; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. tw[=a] two, akin to Goth. tweihnai two apiece. See Twain, and cf. Atween, Betwixt.]
In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia.
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Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two.
If things should go so between them.
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Belonging in common to two; shared by both.
Castor and Pollux with only one soul between them.
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Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition between science and religion.
An intestine struggle, open or secret, between authority and liberty.
--Hume. With relation to two, as involved in an act or attribute of which another is the agent or subject; as, to judge between or to choose between courses; to distinguish between you and me; to mediate between nations.
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In intermediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity, or degree; as, between nine and ten o'clock.
Between decks, the space, or in the space, between the decks of a vessel.
Between ourselves, Between you and me, Between themselves, in confidence; with the understanding that the matter is not to be communicated to others.
Syn: Between, Among.
Usage: Between etymologically indicates only two; as, a quarrel between two men or two nations; to be between two fires, etc. It is however extended to more than two in expressing a certain relation.
I . . . hope that between public business, improving studies, and domestic pleasures, neither melancholy nor caprice will find any place for entrance.
--Johnson. [1913 Webster] Among implies a mass or collection of things or persons, and always supposes more than two; as, the prize money was equally divided among the ship's crew.
Wikipedia
Between Ourselves is an Australian television variety series which aired on ABC.
The first episode aired 20 June 1963 and the final episode aired 19 September 1963.
Cast included Johnny Ladd, Tikki Taylor, Bill Newman, Kevan Johnston, Jillian Hough, Joan Clarke, and Phil Lanham.
Episodes of the series may be held by the National Film and Sound Archive, as kinescope recordings.
Usage examples of "between ourselves".
However, on we went, till we saw before us, and between ourselves and the peak, a vast circular hole with sloping sides, three hundred feet or more in depth, and quite half a mile round.
I gave Zametov a bit of a thrashing at the time-- that's between ourselves, brother.
After I had narrated all the story of our escape, as we had agreed between ourselves that I should, I took the opportunity to address Ignosi as to our departure from Kukuanaland.
Churchill is not much in my good graces, as you may suspect-- but this is quite between ourselves.
We debated it between ourselves, tempers flared as they sometimes did, and Dale finally made his decision and overruled my objections.
Even as we were debating between ourselves, with an ardor that made us oblivious of our long wayfaring, what costly loot we would first choose from among all the mythical treasures of Commoriom, we saw in the moonlight the gleam of marble cupolas above the tree-tops, and then between the boughs and boles the wan pillars of shadowy porticoes.
Of course he must confirm your engagement, but between ourselves it will be all right.