EACH OTHER


Meaning of EACH OTHER in English

pronoun

Etymology: Middle English ech other, from Old English ǣlc ōther, from ǣlc each + ōther other

: each of two or more in reciprocal action or relation : one another — used especially in the possessive case or as the object of a verb or preposition to indicate that of the two or more persons or things referred to by two or more substantives or by a plural or collective substantive any particular one performs the same action upon or stands in the same relation to one or more of the others as one or more of the others do to him

army officers salute each other

when he and I saw each other's faces

the two are now writing to each other daily

— sometimes used with only other in the possessive case or as the object of a verb or preposition and with each in a different construction typically as subject of a verb or in apposition with the subject of a verb

each at other looked — John Keats

each for other they were born — R.W.Emerson

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.