Dictionary Entry
between
between is a 7-letter English word with 9 senses as preposition, noun, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1preposition
In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia.
- 2preposition
Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two.
- 3preposition
Belonging in common to two; shared by both.
- 4preposition
Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition between science and religion.
- 5preposition
With relation to two, as involved in an act or attribute of which another is the agent or subject; as, to judge between or to choose between courses; to distinguish between you and me; to mediate between nations.
- 6preposition
In intermediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity, or degree; as, between nine and ten o'clock.
- 7noun
Intermediate time or space; interval.
- 8adverb
in between
"two houses with a tree between"
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- 9adverb
in the interval
"dancing all the dances with little rest between"
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