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each other
pronoun
- each the other; one another (used as a compound reciprocal pronoun):
to strike at each other; to hold each other's hands; to love each other.
each other
pronoun
- used when the action, attribution, etc, is reciprocal
furious with each other
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Usage
Word History and Origins
Origin of each other1
Idioms and Phrases
Also, one another . Each one the other, one the other, as in The boys like each other , or The birds were fighting one another over the crumbs . Both of these phrases indicate a reciprocal relationship or action between the subjects preceding ( the boys, the birds ). Formerly, many authorities held that each other should be confined to a relationship between two subjects only and one another used when there are more than two. Today most do not subscribe to this distinction, which was never strictly observed anyway. [Late 1300s] Also see at each other's throats .Example Sentences
We would talk off and on, just checking-up-on-each-other kind of thing.
We clung to each other-was it to pass the time, or was it in despair?
Such is the case with our own language: each-other, one-another.
The same enthusiasm for art, the same studies and the same inclinations bound us yet closer to each-other.
The walls consist of unhewn beams laid upon each-other, the crevices being filled up with moss.
They reached the hall, where Siegfried and Gutrune stood to welcome them, and the men hailed each other-388- as brother.
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