a. - Offering a choice of two things.
a. - Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.
a. - Alternate; reciprocal.
n. - 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.
n. - 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.
n. - The course of action or the thing offered in place of another.
n. - A choice between more than two things; one of several things offered to choose among.