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både

Pronunciation: /bɔːðə/

“både” is a Danish word. Its 3 meanings in English:

conjunction

  1. both

noun

  1. advantage, profit

verb

  1. to be useful, help

Etymology

From Old Danish bathæ, from Old Norse báðir (“both”), a combination of Proto-Germanic *bai and the demonstrative pronoun þeir, cf. Old English bā þā (English both) and Old High German beide (German beide).

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