Alsoとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɔːl.səʊ/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɔl.soʊ/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɑl.soʊ/
• ハイフネーション: al‧so

副詞

also (not comparable)

1. (conjunctive, focus) In addition; besides; as well; further; too. [from 14^th c.]

   They had porridge for breakfast, and also toast.

   • 1905, Bertrand Russell, On Denoting

     The subject of denoting is of very great importance, not only in logic and mathematics, but also in the theory of knowledge.

   • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], OCLC 2666860, page 0016:

     Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].

   • 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:

     Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.

2. (obsolete) To the same degree or extent; so, as. [14^th-15^th c.]
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xvj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVII:

     IN suche maner they kepte launcelot four and twenty dayes and also many nyghtes that euer he laye stylle as a dede man / and at the xxv daye byfelle hym after myddaye that he opened his eyen

   • c. 1709, John Strype, Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion

     […] thereupon the queen's majesty […] did send a solemn ambassade of her privy-counsellors, whereof one was an ancient earl of the realm, the other also an ancient baron of the same, and others of the council of her state […]

同意語

• too
• eke
• as well

使用する際の注意点

The adverb also can go in various places within a sentence, with minimal change of meaning.

• The golf courses are excellent. Also, the tennis courts are fantastic.
• The golf courses are excellent and the tennis courts are fantastic also.
• Not only are the golf courses excellent but also the tennis courts are fantastic.
• There are not just excellent golf courses here. There are also fantastic tennis courts.

アナグラム

• ASLO, LAOS, LOAs, Laos, Loas, Salo, loas, salo, soal, sola