Main Entry: each other

Function: pronoun

Date: before 12th century

: each of two or more in reciprocal action or relation <looked at each other in surprise>

usage Some handbooks and textbooks recommend that each other be restricted to reference to two and one another to reference to three or more. The distinction, while neat, is not observed in actual usage. Each other and one another are used interchangeably by good writers and have been since at least the 16th century.