1. Adjective
Offering a choice of two things.
2. Adjective
Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.
3. Adjective
Alternate; reciprocal.
4. Noun
An offer of two things, one of which may be chosen, but not both; a choice between two things, so that if one is taken, the other must be left.
5. Noun
Either of two things or propositions offered to one's choice. Thus when two things offer a choice of one only, the two things are called alternatives.
6. Noun
The course of action or the thing offered in place of another.
7. Noun
A choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among.
8. Noun
one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen; "what option did I have?"; "there is no other alternative"; "my only choice is to refuse"
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