Other Definition

ŭthər
others
adjective
Being the remaining one or ones of two or more.
Bill and the other boys.
Webster's New World
Being the remaining ones of several.
His other books are still in storage.
American Heritage
Different or distinct from that or those referred to or implied.
Use your other foot, not Jane but some other girl.
Webster's New World
Different in nature or kind.
It is other than you think.
Webster's New World
Further or additional.
To have no other coat.
Webster's New World
noun
others
The opposite.
Hate is the other of love.
Webster's New World
The remaining one of two or more.
One took a taxi, and the other walked home.
American Heritage
The remaining ones of several.
After her departure the others resumed the discussion.
American Heritage
A different person or thing.
One hurricane after the other.
American Heritage
An additional person or thing.
How many others will come later?
American Heritage
pronoun
The other one.
Each loved the other.
Webster's New World
Another or some other person or thing.
To do as others do.
Webster's New World
People aside from oneself.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
  • yesterday or the day before
  • a while ago
  • a while back
  • the alternative
  • the part remaining
  • the one remaining
  • not long ago
  • recently
  • supreme
  • highest
  • superior to
  • above all others
  • the alternate
Antonyms:
adverb
Otherwise; differently.
He can't do other than go.
Webster's New World

Apart from; in the phrase "other than".

Other than that, I'm fine.
Wiktionary
determiner
Not the one or ones previously referred to.
Other people would do it differently.
Wiktionary
verb
To make into an other.
Wiktionary
Wiktionary

(ethnicity or race) To label as "other".

Wiktionary
conjuntion

(obsolete) Or.

Wiktionary
idiom
of all others
  • above all others
Webster's New World
the Other
  • a person, group, or entity perceived as being the opposite of or alien to oneself or one's group
Webster's New World
the other day (<i>or</i> night, afternoon, <i>etc.</i>)
  • on a recent day (or night, afternoon, etc.)
Webster's New World
somehow or other
  • some unspecified or unknown way (or place, time, thing, etc.)

    somehow or other, we'll raise the money

Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Other

Noun

Singular:
other
Plural:
others

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Other

  • of all others
  • the Other
  • the other day (or night, afternoon, etc.)
  • somehow or other

Origin of Other

  • From Middle English other, from Old English ōþer (“other, second"), from Proto-Germanic *anþeraz (“other, second"), from Proto-Indo-European *ánteros (“other"). Cognate with Scots uther, ither (“other"), Old Frisian ōther, ("other"; > North Frisian üđer, ööder, ouder), Old Saxon ōthar (“other"), Old High German ander (“other"), Old Norse annarr, øðr-, aðr- (“other, second"), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌸𐌰𐍂 (anþar, “other"), Old Prussian anters, antars (“other, second"), Lithuanian antroks (“other", pronoun), Latvian otrs, otrais (“second"), Russian второй (vtoroy, “second"), Albanian ndërroj (“to change, switch, alternate"), Sanskrit अन्तर (ántara, “different"), Sanskrit अन्य (anyá, “other, different").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old English ōther al-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Probably Old English oþþe.

    From Wiktionary

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