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What Is Alternative?

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In these times when "alternative" is becoming mainstream, and "the norm", the questions remains, what is alternative?

Let us consult the dictionary...

Firstly with WordNet...

The noun

1. option, alternative, choice -- (one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen; "what option did I have?"; "there no other alternative"; "my only choice is to refuse")

The adjective

1. alternate, alternative -- (allowing a choice; "an alternative plan")
2. alternative, mutually exclusive -- (necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities; "`either' and `or' in `either this or that'")
3. alternative -- (pertaining to unconventional choices; "an alternative life style")

\Al*ter"na*tive\, a. [Cf. F. alternatif.]
1. Offering a choice of two things.

2. Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.

3. Alternate; reciprocal. [Obs.] --Holland.

Now with Webster's 1913 Dictionary...

\Al*ter"na*tive\, n. [Cf. F. alternative, LL.
alternativa.]
1. 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.

There is something else than the mere alternative of absolute destruction or unreformed existence.
--Burke.

2. 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}.

Having to choose between two alternatives, safety and war, you obstinately prefer the worse. --Jowett
(Thucyd.).

3. The course of action or the thing offered in place of another.

If this demand is refused the alternative is war. --Lewis.

With no alternative but death. --Longfellow.

4. A choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among.

My decided preference is for the fourth and last of these alternatives. --Gladstone.

Types of alternatives include - Alternative

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