Crossword clues for both
both
- Either/or alternative
- Chooser's greedy choice
- All of two
- "Ice cream or cake?" response, perhaps
- You and me?
- Waffler's choice
- This thing and that thing
- This one and the other one, too
- This one and that
- These two
- That one and this one
- Q: Between the father and the son, which is the answer to each starred clue? A: ___
- One for each hand
- Not just this one or that one
- Not just this one
- Not just one of two
- Neither's opposite
- More than one of two
- Greedy one's choice
- Follower of you and me?
- Either/or decision negator
- Cut -- ways
- Coupling word
- Choice when you can't decide?
- Best ofworlds
- Best of __ worlds
- All two of them
- A and B, as opposed to A or B
- "You and me __"
- "You and me ___!"
- "The other one, too"
- "Each of the two will do"
- "A plague o' ___ your houses!": Mercutio
- "--- Sides Now" (Joni Mitchell hit)
- "___ Your Houses"
- " . . . ___ your houses"
- Have both plusses and minuses
- One and the other
- Two out of two
- This and that, say
- Not just one of the two
- Opposite of neither
- The two of them
- Choice for the indecisive
- Equivocator's choice
- Choice that avoids choosing
- This plus that
- The two together
- Not just one or the other
- Anderson's "___ Your Houses"
- Equally
- The pair
- "___ Sides Now," Joni Mitchell hit
- Two together
- Togetherness word
- "You and me ___"
- Each of two
- Each cubicle is deficient in oxygen
- Two considered together
- Part 3 of quote
- "___ Sides Now" (Grammy-winning song for Judy Collins)
- This one and that one
- Those two things
- Best of ___ worlds
- These two things
- The one and the other
- Inclusive choice
- Better-be-safe choice
- "Why not ___?"
- "____ Sides Now"
- Two, together
- Not either or neither
- Greedy choice, perhaps
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Both \Both\, a. or pron. [OE. bothe, ba?e, fr. Icel. b[=a]?ir; akin to Dan. baade, Sw. b[*a]da, Goth. baj??s, OHG. beid?, b?d?, G. & D. beide, also AS. begen, b[=a], b?, Goth. bai, and Gr. ?, L. ambo, Lith. ab[`a], OSlav. oba, Skr. ubha. The one and the other; the two; the pair, without exception of either.
Note: It is generally used adjectively with nouns; as, both horses ran away; but with pronouns, and often with nous, it is used substantively, and followed by of.
Note: It frequently stands as a pronoun.
She alone is heir to both of us.
--Shak.
Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto
Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.
--Gen. xxi.
27.
He will not bear the loss of his rank, because he
can bear the loss of his estate; but he will bear
both, because he is prepared for both.
--Bolingbroke.
Note: It is often used in apposition with nouns or pronouns.
Thy weal and woe are both of them extremes.
--Shak.
This said, they both betook them several ways.
--Milton.
Note: Both now always precedes any other attributive words; as, both their armies; both our eyes.
Note: Both of is used before pronouns in the objective case; as, both of us, them, whom, etc.; but before substantives its used is colloquial, both (without of) being the preferred form; as, both the brothers.
Both \Both\, conj. As well; not only; equally.
Note: Both precedes the first of two co["o]rdinate words or phrases, and is followed by and before the other, both . . . and . . .; as well the one as the other; not only this, but also that; equally the former and the latter. It is also sometimes followed by more than two co["o]rdinate words, connected by and expressed or understood.
To judge both quick and dead.
--Milton.
A masterpiece both for argument and style.
--Goldsmith.
To whom bothe heven and erthe and see is sene.
--Chaucer.
Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound.
--Goldsmith.
He prayeth well who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
--Coleridge.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
there are several theories, all similar, and deriving the word from the tendency to say "both the." One is that it is Old English begen (masc.) "both" (from Proto-Germanic *ba, from PIE *bho "both") + -þ extended base. Another traces it to the Proto-Germanic formula represented in Old English by ba þa "both these," from ba (feminine nominative and accusative of begen) + þa, nominative and accusative plural of se "that." A third traces it to Old Norse baðir "both," from *bai thaiz "both the," from Proto-Germanic *thaiz, third person plural pronoun. Compare similar formation in Old Frisian bethe, Dutch beide, Old High German beide, German beide, Gothic bajoþs.
Wiktionary
conj. including both (used with and) det. Each of the two; one and the other.
WordNet
adj. (used with count nouns) two considered together; the two; "both girls are pretty" [syn: both(a)]
Wikipedia
Both may refer to:
Both is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Andries Both, Dutch painter
- Bob Both, American record producer
- Edward Both, Australian inventor
- Jan Dirksz Both, Dutch painter
- Kuno-Hans von Both, German soldier
- Marcus Both, Australian golfer
- Paul Both, German soldier
- Pieter Both, Dutch politician
Both is a 2005 US-Canadian-Peruvian drama film directed by Lisset Barcellos. Starring Jackie Parker, Mike Martinez, Nicole Wilder, Fabrizio Aguilar, Ximena Ameri and Pable Barcellos, the film tells the story of a stunt double with an intersex variation, who discovers her past.
The film was welcomed by members of the intersex community. The world premiere took place at San Francisco's Frameline Film Festival and was welcomed by the Intersex Society of North America.
Usage examples of "both".
These observations arose out of a motion made by Lord Bathurst, who had been roughly handled by the mob on Friday, for an address praying that his majesty would give immediate orders for prosecuting, in the most effectual manner, the authors, abettors, and instruments of the outrages committed both in the vicinity of the houses of parliament and upon the houses and chapels of the foreign ministers.
Both Abigail and Moira laughed with delight as they sought to hold down the billowing cloth.
It bore both the rich aroma of leaves being burnt in the fall and the faint perfume of wildflowers ablow in the spring, but it also held a third attar which seemed to be the breath of the Wind itself which none could ever set name to.
One wall of the ablutions area changed miraculously into a mirror and she saw them both reflected in it.
Ann they had both been aboad a bus cruising at eighteen miles an hour along the sixty-lane freeway that ran from Bear Canyon to Pasadena, near the middle of Los Angeles.
In fact, the opening was depressingly familiar, full of protestations of loyalty to both King George and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, plus a promise that the authors would willingly fight the French, indeed die for their country, but they could not face another day aboard such a hellish ship.
Howbeit he had looked on the King closely and wisely, and deemed that he was both cruel and guileful, so that he rejoiced that he had spoken naught of Ursula, and he was minded to keep her within gates all the while they abode at Cheaping-Knowe.
I do not dispense abortifacients except in extreme cases when the life of mother and child both are at risk.
Chrissie, took both her hands and held them gently in his, as aware of her abraded palm as he was aware of his own injured wrist.
Not only was it exceptionally lofty, and on one flank of that series of bluffs which has before been mentioned as constituting the line upon which the Confederate grip of the stream was based, but the tortuous character of the channel gave particular facilities for an enfilading fire on vessels both before and after they came abreast the works.
If he wept at the sight of an old tapestry which represented the crime and punishment of the son of Chosroes, if his days were abridged by grief and remorse, we may allow some pity to a parricide, who exclaimed, in the bitterness of death, that he had lost both this world and the world to come.
I have received a few unconfirmed rumors from the north, but then, you and I both know that warfare is always abrim with rumors, warriors being as gossipy as old women.
Martin Cash was a fellow countryman, born at Enniscorthy in County Wexford, and when he had been sent to Norfolk Island, he had talked freely of his exploits as absconder and bushranger, taking great pride in both.
Both paths were making absolutely world-shaking discoveries, but discoveries that spoke to each other virtually not at all.
The absolutist nature of the American Creed, with its ideological faith in Democracy and Freedom, tends to produce etherized, contentless versions of both these concepts.