each other
pronoun (also one another)Definition
A2 used to show that each person in a group of two or more people does something to the others: They kept looking at each other and smiling. They're always wearing each other's clothes. Why are you always arguing with each other? They're so happy together - they were made for each other (= are perfectly matched).Reciprocating
(Definition of each other pronoun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- another determiner, pronoun (DIFFERENT)
- give and take noun
- it takes two to tango idiom
- mutual adjective
- mutually adverb
- one another pronoun
- one good turn deserves another idiom
- reciprocal adjective
- reciprocate verb
- reciprocity noun
- requite verb
- return noun (EXCHANGE)
- return noun (GIVING BACK)
- return verb (EXCHANGE)
- two-way adjective (RELATIONSHIP)
- unrequited adjective
- you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours idiom
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