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oth⋅er

  [uhth-er]
Use other in a Sentence
–adjective
1. additional or further: he and one other person.
2. different or distinct from the one mentioned or implied: in some other city; Some other design may be better.
3. different in nature or kind: I would not have him other than he is.
4. being the remaining one of two or more: the other hand.
5. (used with plural nouns) being the remaining ones of a number: the other men; some other countries.
6. former; earlier: sailing ships of other days.
7. not long past: the other night.
–noun
8. the other one: Each praises the other.
–pronoun
9. Usually, others. other persons or things: others in the medical profession.
10. some person or thing else: Surely some friend or other will help me.
–adverb
11. otherwise; differently (usually fol. by than): We can't collect the rent other than by suing the tenant.
—Idiom
12. every other, every alternate: a meeting every other week.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE ōther (pronoun, adj., and n.); c. G ander, Goth anthar; akin to Skt antara-
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oth·er   (ŭth'ər)   
adj.  
    1. Being the remaining one of two or more: the other ear.
    2. Being the remaining ones of several: His other books are still in storage.
  2. Different from that or those implied or specified: Any other person would tell the truth.
  3. Of a different character or quality: "a strange, other dimension . . . where his powers seemed to fail" (Lance Morrow).
  4. Of a different time or era either future or past: other centuries; other generations.
  5. Additional; extra: I have no other shoes.
  6. Opposite or contrary; reverse: the other side.
  7. Alternate; second: every other day.
  8. Of the recent past: just the other day.
n.  
    1. The remaining one of two or more: One took a taxi, and the other walked home.
    2. others The remaining ones of several: After her departure the others resumed the discussion.
    3. A different person or thing: one hurricane after the other.
    4. An additional person or thing: How many others will come later?
    1. A different person or thing: one hurricane after the other.
    2. An additional person or thing: How many others will come later?
pron.  
  1. A different or an additional person or thing: We'll get someone or other to replace him.
  2. others People aside from oneself: "the eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages" (Virginia Woolf).
adv.  In another way; otherwise; differently: The car performed other than perfectly.

[Middle English, from Old English ōther; see al-1 in Indo-European roots.]
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Other

Oth"er\ ([u^][th]"[~e]r), conj. [See Or.] Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). [Obs.]

Other of chalk, other of glass. --Chaucer.

Other

Oth"er\, pron. & a. [AS. [=o][eth]er; akin to OS. [=a][eth]ar, [=o][eth]ar, D. & G. ander, OHG. andar, Icel. annarr, Sw. annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an[thorn]ar, Skr. antara: cf. L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf. Skr. anya other. [root]180. Cf. Alter.]

Usage: [Formerly other was used both as singular and plural.]

1. Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second of two.

Each of them made other for to win. --Chaucer.

Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. --Matt. v. 39.

2. Not this, but the contrary; opposite; as, the other side of a river.

3. Alternate; second; -- used esp. in connection with every; as, every other day, that is, each alternate day, every second day.

4. Left, as opposed to right. [Obs.]

A distaff in her other hand she had. --Spenser.

Note: Other is a correlative adjective, or adjective pronoun, often in contrast with one, some, that, this, etc.

The one shall be taken, and the other left. --Matt. xxiv. 41.

And some fell among thorns . . . but other fell into good ground. --Matt. xiii. 7, 8. It is also used, by ellipsis, with a noun, expressed or understood.

To write this, or to design the other. --Dryden. It is written with the indefinite article as one word, another; is used with each, indicating a reciprocal action or relation; and is employed absolutely, or eliptically for other thing, or other person, in which case it may have a plural.

The fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. --Ps. xlix. 10.

If he is trimming, others are true. --Thackeray. Other is sometimes followed by but, beside, or besides; but oftener by than.

No other but such a one as he. --Coleridge.

Other lords beside thee have had dominion over us. --Is. xxvi. 13.

For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid. --1 Cor. iii. 11.

The whole seven years of . . . ignominy had been little other than a preparation for this very hour. --Hawthorne.

Other some, some others. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

The other day, at a certain time past, not distant, but indefinite; not long ago; recently; rarely, the third day past.

Bind my hair up: as't was yesterday? No, nor t' other day. --B. Jonson.

Other

Oth"er\, adv. Otherwise. "It shall none other be." --Chaucer. "If you think other." --Shak.
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Language Translation for : other
Spanish: otro,
German: ander,
Japanese: もう一方の
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other 
O.E. oþer "the second, one of the two, other," from P.Gmc. *antharaz (cf. O.S. athar, O.N. annarr, Ger. ander, Goth. anþar "other"), from PIE *an-tero-, variant of *al-tero- "the other of two" (cf. Lith. antras, Skt. antarah "other, foreign," L. alter), from base *al- "beyond" + adj. comp. suffix *-tero-. Sense of "second" was detached from this word in Eng. (which uses second, from L.) and Ger. (zweiter, from zwei "two") to avoid ambiguity. In Scand., however, the second floor is still the "other" floor (cf. Swed. andra, Dan. anden). Phrase other world "world of idealism or fantasy, afterlife, spirit-land" is c.1200; hence otherworldliness (c.1834). The other woman "a woman with whom a man begins a love affair while he is already committed" is from 1855. The other day originally (1154) was "the next day;" later (c.1300) "yesterday;" and now, loosely, "a day or two ago" (1421). Phrase other half in reference to either the poor or the rich, is recorded from 1607.
"La moitié du monde ne sçayt comment l'aultre vit." [Rabelais, "Pantagruel," 1532]
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other

In addition to the idioms beginning with other, also see 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.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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