Meanings
- archaicdialectalBetween.
The silver strings of heavenly harp atween: And let there glide by many a pearly car, Pink robes, and wavy hair, and diamond jar
1816, John Keats, On Leaving Some Friends at an Early Hour1 more example
That's jest a specimen o' the kind of stoopidity as always seems to be a layin' atween property and poverty, atween capital and labor, atween you settin' thar with yer soft ways and yer soft dress ag'in you, and me, and the bed, and the chair, and the wall, and the end on't.
1871, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, The Silent Partner
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Middle Englishatwene
- Englishatween
From Middle English atwene. Equivalent to a- + twain.
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