Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - another

~ determiner, pronoun 1 used to refer to one more person or thing of the same kind  (Can you pass me another mug? | I'm going to have another beer. | When you've eaten that, you can have another one. | "I can't find that pencil you've just given me." "Don't worry, here's another.") + of  (Is this another of your schemes to make money?) yet another  (He has to go to yet another meeting. (=he has already been to several) | from one...to another)  (We seem to struggle from one crisis to another. | one after another (=used to talk about a series of similar things of events))  (Small businesses have been collapsing one after another.) 2 a different person or thing or some other kind of person or thing  (If that doesn't work, you'll have to find another way of solving the problem. | You can press enter to select this value or type another choice (such as N). | We'll talk about that another time. | another of)  (Another of the speakers suggested abandoning the project altogether. | ... or another (=used when you cannot be specific about what kind of things or people you mean))  (All the kids in this class have learning difficulties of one sort or another. | that is another matter/ thing altogether)  (You can try it, but whether it will work is another thing altogether. (=it is likely that it will not work)) 3 in addition to a particular amount, distance, period of time etc; further  (Let the soup simmer for another 10 minutes. | I let out another 50 feet of rope. | A room with a sea view will cost another $7.) 4 one another used after a verb to show that two or more people or things do the same thing to each other  (They seem to love one another very much.) 5 another Chernobyl/another Pele etc used when talking about a situation or person that reminds you of another famous situation or person, especially because they have extremely good or extremely bad qualities