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one another's

one another's pronoun: the possessive form of one another.

Pronoun

one another's

  1. (possessive) The possessive form of one another.
    • The students critiqued one another's proposals.
    • And I cannot guess what we’ll discover
      when we turn the dirt with our arms cupped like shovels;
      but I know our filthy hands will wash one another’s
      and not one speck will remain.2005 August 30, Death Cab for Cutie, “Soul Meets Body”, in Plans

Forms of one another's

alternative form (obsolete)one anothers

Questions about one another's

What does one another's mean?
One another's means the possessive form of one another.
What part of speech is one another's?
One another's is a pronoun.

Words near one another's in the dictionary

  1. one and onlies
  2. one and only
  3. one and out
  4. one and the same
  5. one another
  6. one another's
  7. one anothers
  8. one at a time
  9. one bad apple can spoil the barrel
  10. one bad apple can spoil the whole bunch
  11. one bad turn deserves another

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