Definition of rather than in English Dictionary

• 接続詞 (Conjunction)+-
  1. And not.
  2. Used to indicate that the following alternative is less preferred.
     1. According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.
• 前置詞 (Preposition)
  1. instead of; in preference to.
     1. I'd like a dog rather than a cat.
• より多くの例
  1. 文の途中で使用される
     • There are feeble-mindednesses rather than a single condition of feeble-mindedness from this point of view.
     • Now, the vast majority of us identify with the second group, the one that believes in trusting the wisdom of the people rather than taking power away from them and concentrating it in the other hands.
     • "Roget" is the leading brand name for a print English thesaurus that lists words under general concepts rather than just close synonyms.
  2. 文の初めに使われる
     • Rather than such Hellenic greatness of soul, Proverbs emphasized humbleheartedness.

• 品詞階層 (Part-of-Speech Hierarchy)
  1. 接続詞
  2. 前置詞

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類似の単語 (Look-Alike Words)

1. en other than
2. en greater than
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4. en wherethan
5. en gathereth