alternate
adjective/ɔːlˈtɜːnət/
/ˈɔːltərnət/
[usually before noun]- (of two things) happening or following one after the other regularly
- alternate layers of fruit and cream
- Stretch up 30 times with alternate arms as a warm-up exercise.
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- if something happens on alternate days, nights, etc. it happens on one day, etc. but not on the next
- John has to work on alternate Sundays.
- The ferry service will initially run on alternate days, increasing eventually to daily sailings.
- (especially North American English) (also alternative British and North American English)that can be used instead of something else
Word Originearly 16th cent.: from Latin alternat- ‘done by turns’, from alternare, from alternus ‘every other’, from alter ‘other’.
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