other

[uhth -er] /ˈʌð ər/
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 followed by than):
We can't collect the rent other than by suing the tenant.
Idioms
12.
every other, every alternate:
a meeting every other week.
Origin
before 900; Middle English; Old English ōther (pronoun, adj., and noun); cognate with German ander, Gothic anthar; akin to Sanskrit antara-
Examples from the web for other
  • Those obligations can keep faculty members from talking to one another, much less to their colleagues in other departments.
  • Please stay on topic and be respectful of other readers.
  • The pair likely died within days or perhaps even hours of each other and may have been related.
  • And our use of them can reveal, among other things, whether a romance will work out or how well two people work together.
  • These reductions will be in addition to the loss of tens of thousands of other temporary jobs created to process dud mortgages.
  • Many species have developed deceptive appearances to fool would-be predators by taking on the look of other unpalatable species.
  • When scientists played the songs on underwater speakers, however, other males-not females-showed up.
  • Keep in mind that sulfur is sometimes combined with other pesticides, many of which have higher toxicity levels.
  • In a refreshing change of pace from other mobile platform makers, the menu screen interface looks entirely different.
  • Imagine a herd of elephants all talking to each other.
British Dictionary definitions for other

other

/ˈʌðə/
determiner
1.
  1. (when used before a sing 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
  2. the other, (as pronoun; functioning as sing): one walks while the other rides
2.
(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
3.
additional; further: there are no other possibilities
4.
(preceded by every) alternate; two: it buzzes every other minute
5.
other than
  1. apart from; besides: a lady other than his wife
  2. different from: he couldn't be other than what he is Archaic form other from
6.
(archaic) no other, nothing else: I can do no other
7.
(preceded by a phrase or word with some) or other, used to add vagueness to the preceding pronoun, noun, noun phrase, or adverb: some dog or other bit him, he's somewhere or other
8.
other things being equal, conditions being the same or unchanged
9.
the other day, a few days ago
10.
the other thing, an unexpressed alternative
pronoun
11.
another: show me one other
12.
(pl) additional or further ones: the police have found two and are looking for others
13.
(pl) other people or things
14.
the others, the remaining ones (of a group): take these and leave the others
15.
(pl) different ones (from those specified or understood): they'd rather have others, not these See also each other, one another
adverb
16.
(usually used with a negative and foll by than) otherwise; differently: they couldn't behave other than they do
otherwise
Word Origin
Old English ōther; related to Old Saxon āthar, ōthar, Old High German andar
Word Origin and History for other
adj.

Old English oþer "the second" (adj.), also as a pronoun, "one of the two, other," from Proto-Germanic *antharaz (cf. Old Saxon athar, Old Frisian other, Old Norse annarr, Middle Dutch and Dutch ander, Old High German andar, German ander, Gothic anþar "other").

These are from PIE *an-tero-, variant of *al-tero- "the other of two" (cf. Lithuanian antras, Sanskrit antarah "other, foreign," Latin alter), from root *al- "beyond" (see alias) + adjectival comparative suffix *-tero-. The Old English, Old Saxon, and Old Frisian forms show "a normal loss of n before fricatives" [Barnhart]. Meaning "different" is mid-13c.

Sense of "second" was detached from this word in English (which uses second, from Latin) and German (zweiter, from zwei "two") to avoid ambiguity. In Scandinavian, however, the second floor is still the "other" floor (e.g. Swedish andra, Danish anden). Also cf. Old English oþergeara "next year."

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 (mid-12c.) was "the next day;" later (c.1300) "yesterday;" and now, loosely, "a day or two ago" (early 15c.). Phrase other half in reference to either the poor or the rich, is recorded from c.1600.

La moitié du monde ne sçayt comment l'aultre vit. [Rabelais, "Pantagruel," 1532]

Idioms and Phrases with other

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