The meaning of BOTH is the one as well as the other. How to use both in a sentence.
We can use both after a subject pronoun or an object pronoun: We both prefer classical music. Let’s open them both now. When we use both as part of a subject or object which is a pronoun, it may be followed by of + an object pronoun:
One and the other; relating to or being two in conjunction: Both guests have arrived. Both the books are torn. Both her fingers are broken. The one and the other: Both were candidates. We are both candidates. Both of us are candidates.
You use both when you are referring to two people or things and saying that something is true about each of them. She cried out in fear and flung both arms up to protect her face. Put both vegetables into a bowl and crush with a potato masher. Both is also a quantifier.
Definition of both determiner in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
You use both or both of before a determiner such as ‘the’, ‘these’, or ‘my’: Both (of) the women were tall. Both (of) her parents are dead. Don’t say: the both women | her both parents You use both after a pronoun: We both come from Scotland.
Both definition: One and the other; relating to or being two in conjunction.
Both as a pronoun refers to a noun it replaces. It refers to the two people or things it replaces. For example: I want both, please. I have a guitar and a percussion. Both sound awesome. 'Both' refers to 'a guitar and a percussion.'