also

Etymology

From Middle English also, alswo, alswa, (also alse, als, as > English as), from Old English ealswā, eallswā (“completely so, additionally, just as, just so, even as, even so, as, as if, so, so as, likewise, also; likewise, in just the same way”), equivalent to all +‎ so. Cognate with Scots alsa, alswa (“also, even so, in the same way, as, as well”), Saterland Frisian also (“accordingly, therefore, thus”), West Frisian alsa (“so, just so, even so, thus”), Old Saxon alsō (“similarly, as if, just as, when”), Dutch alzo (“so, thus”), German also (“so, thus”), Danish altså (“so”), Swedish alltså (“so, therefore, accordingly, thus, then”). Compare also Swedish också (“also, too, as well”) and Albanian aq sa (“as much as”), compound of aq (“as much”) and sa (“how much, so, as”). See all, so, as.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːl.səʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɔl.soʊ/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɑl.soʊ/

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• Hyphenation: al‧so

Adverb

also (not comparable)

1. (conjunctive, focus) In addition; besides; as well; further; too. [from 14^th c.]

   They had porridge for breakfast, and also toast.

   • 1905, Bertrand Russell, On Denoting

     The subject of denoting is of very great importance, not only in logic and mathematics, but also in the theory of knowledge.

   • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., 55 Fifth Avenue, [1933], OCLC 2666860, page 0016:

     Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].

   • 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:

     Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.

2. (obsolete) To the same degree or extent; so, as. [14^th-15^th c.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xvj, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:

     IN suche maner they kepte launcelot four and twenty dayes and also many nyghtes that euer he laye stylle as a dede man / and at the xxv daye byfelle hym after myddaye that he opened his eyen

   • John Strype

     […] thereupon the queen's majesty […] did send a solemn ambassade of her privy-counsellors, whereof one was an ancient earl of the realm, the other also an ancient baron of the same, and others of the council of her state […]

Anagrams

• ASLO, LAOS, LOAs, Laos, Loas, loas, salo, soal, sola

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔalzoː/

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Interjection

also!

1. so!; all right!; used as a lead-in or to start a new topic.

Adverb

also

1. so
2. thus

Adverb

also

1. so
2. thus, therefore

Etymology

From Old Dutch alsō, from al + sō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌalˈzoː/

Adverb

alsô

1. so, thus
2. also, to the same degree

Further reading

• “also (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “also (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “also (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
• “also (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

Etymology

From al +‎ sō.

Preposition

alsō

1. as, like

Adverb

also

1. so; thus; therefore; accordingly
2. for that reason; hence

Noun

also

1. silver-spotted gray snapper (Lutianus argentimaculatus)

Adverb

also

1. so
2. thus