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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Alternative \Al*ter"na*tive\, a. [Cf. F. alternatif.] 1. Offering a choice of two things 2. Disjunctive; as an alternative conjunction. 3. Alternate; reciprocal. [Obs.] --Holland. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Alternative \Al*ter"na*tive\, n. [Cf. F. alternative, LL alternativa.] 1. 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 There is something else than the mere alternative of absolute destruction or unreformed existence. --Burke. 2. 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}. Having to choose between two alternatives, safety and war, you obstinately prefer the worse. --Jowett (Thucyd.). 3. The course of action or the thing offered in place of another. If this demand is refused the alternative is war. --Lewis. With no alternative but death. --Longfellow. 4. A choice between more than two things one of several things offered to choose among. My decided preference is for the fourth and last of these alternatives. --Gladstone. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: alternative adj 1: allowing a choice; "an alternative plan" [syn: {alternate}] 2: necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities; "`either' and `or' in `either this or that' [syn: {mutually exclusive}] 3: pertaining to unconventional choices; "an alternative life style" n : an alternative action "what option did I have?" or "there no other alternative" or "my only choice is to refuse" [syn: {option}, {choice}]
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