"alternative" Definition

Definitions for the word "alternative" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. a.
Offering a choice of two things.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. a.
Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. a.
Alternate; reciprocal.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
An offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
Either of two things or propositions offered to one's choice. Thus when two things offer a choice of one only, the two things are called alternatives.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
The course of action or the thing offered in place of another.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
A choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. adj.
1 available as another choice (alternative route). 2 unconventional (alternative medicine). n. 1 any of two or more possibilities. 2 choice (had no alternative but to go). alternatively adv.
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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