and
In English, and has 1 different meanings When used as conjunction it is and, and then (connects two elements of a sentence) but it can also mean however, yet, but, though. while, if, supposing that, whether. or even as though, like, in a manner suggesting.
It evolved from 1 origin. Comes from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti.
"and" usage examples
Sentences containing and to see its usage in context.
| Middle English | English |
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thou art more louely and more temperate : |
You are lovelier and more even-tempered: |
rough windes do shake the darling buds of Maie , and Sommers lease hath all too short a date : |
Rough winds shake the darling buds of May, and summer’s time is all too brief. |
sometime too hot the eye of heauen shines , and often is his gold complexion dimm'd , and euery faire from faire some - time declines , By chance , or natures changing course vntrim'd : |
Sometimes the sun shines too hot, and often its golden face is dimmed; Every beautiful thing loses its beauty at times, by chance, or by nature’s unadorned course. |