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other
[ uhth-er ]
adjective
- additional or further:
he and one other person.
- different or distinct from the one or ones already mentioned or implied:
I'd like to live in some other city.
The TV show follows the lives of people who are married, single, or other.
The application gives three gender choices—male, female, and other.
- different in nature or kind:
I would not have him other than he is.
- being the remaining one of two or more:
the other hand.
- (used with plural nouns) being the remaining ones of a number:
the other men;
some other countries.
- former; earlier:
sailing ships of other days.
- not long past:
the other night.
noun
- the other one:
Each praises the other.
- (often initial capital letter) none the other,
- a group or member of a group that is perceived as different, foreign, strange, etc.:
Prejudice comes from fear of the other.
- a person or thing that is the counterpart of someone or something else:
the role of the Other in the development of self.
pronoun
- Usually others. other persons or things:
others in the medical profession.
- some person or thing else:
Surely some friend or other will help me.
adverb
- otherwise; differently (usually followed by than ):
We can't collect the rent other than by suing the tenant.
verb (used with object)
- to perceive or treat (a group or member of a group) as different, foreign, strange, etc.:
Female murderers are othered by characterizing them as psychological oddities.
other
/ ˈʌðə /
determiner
- when used before a singular noun, usually preceded by the the remaining (one or ones in a group of which one or some have been specified)
I'll read the other sections of the paper later
- ( as pronoun; functioning as sing )
one walks while the other rides
- (a) different (one or ones from that or those already specified or understood)
he found some other house
no other man but you
other days were happier
- additional; further
there are no other possibilities
- preceded by every alternate; two
it buzzes every other minute
- other than
- apart from; besides
a lady other than his wife
- different from Archaic formother from
he couldn't be other than what he is
- no other archaic.nothing else
I can do no other
- or otherpreceded by a phrase or word with some used to add vagueness to the preceding pronoun, noun, noun phrase, or adverb
he's somewhere or other
some dog or other bit him
- other things being equalconditions being the same or unchanged
- the other daya few days ago
- the other thingan unexpressed alternative
pronoun
- another
show me one other
- plural additional or further ones
the police have found two and are looking for others
- plural other people or things
- the othersthe remaining ones (of a group)
take these and leave the others
- plural different ones (from those specified or understood) See also each other one another
they'd rather have others, not these
adverb
- usually used with a negative and foll by than otherwise; differently
they couldn't behave other than they do
Usage
Word History and Origins
Origin of other1
Word History and Origins
Origin of other1
Idioms and Phrases
- every other, every alternate:
a meeting every other week.
More idioms and phrases containing other
- at each other's throats
- do unto others
- each other
- every other
- in one ear and out the other
- in someone's pocket (live in each other's pockets)
- in other words
- laugh out of the other side of one's mouth
- look the other way
- made for (each other)
- none other than
- on the one (the other) hand
- or other
- right (other) side of the tracks
- shoe is on the other foot
- six of one, half a dozen of the other
- the other day
- this and that (and the other)
- turn the other cheek
- wait for the other shoe to drop
Example Sentences
The city provided no other information about the investigation.
Stringfellow said one of her goals is to help generate discussion about how Los Angeles can reduce its dependence on water imported from the Eastern Sierra and other sources hundreds of miles away.
They died in hospital in the early hours of Sunday morning within 15 minutes of each other.
He denies having altered the transcript of the call other than to change the time.
The friends died in hospital within 15 minutes of each other in the early hours of Sunday morning.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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