or
Meaning
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- Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc., each of which could make a passage true.
- An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
- Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
- Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
- Connects two equivalent names.
Synonyms
neither nor
in that case
either or
whichever is the case
in former times
and what not
isn’t it
or not
old coin
whether or
city in Afghanestan
worth 4
either … or
toforehand
disjunctive conjunction
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɔː(ɹ)/
Etymology
From Middle English or; partially contracted from other, auther, from Old English āþor, āwþer, āhwæþer ("some, any, either"; > either); and partially from Middle English oththe, from Old English oþþe, from Proto-Germanic *efþau (“or”).
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