The meaning of AGAIN is another time : once more : anew. How to use again in a sentence.
You use again to indicate that something happens a second time, or after it has already happened before. He kissed her again. Again there was a short silence. He opened his attaché case, removed a folder, then closed it again.
AGAIN definition: 1. one more time: 2. back to the original place or condition: 3. If something happens once again…. Learn more.
AGAIN definition: once more; another time; anew; in addition. See examples of again used in a sentence.
Definition of again adverb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
- again and again, with many repetitions; often. 2. as much again, twice as much.
once more in a previously experienced or encountered place, state, or condition: he is ill again, she came back again in addition to the original amount, quantity, etc (esp in the phrases as much again; half as much again)
Of action or existence: as, to do anything again; he had to make it all over again. Of number or quantity: only in the phrases as much or as many again (= twice as much or as many), half as much again (= once and a half as much), etc.
Tell me again, say again; used in asking a question to which one may have already received an answer that one cannot remember. What's that called again? I ask again, I say again; used in repeating a question or statement. Again, I'm not criticizing, I just want to understand.