Definitions for: Other


[adj] very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected; "a strange, other dimension...where his powers seemed to fail"- Lance Morrow
[adj] not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied; "today isn't any other day"- the White Queen; "the construction of highways and other public works"; "he asked for other employment"; "any other person would tell the truth"; "his other books are still in storage"; "then we looked at the other house"; "hearing was good in his other ear"; "the other sex"; "she lived on the other side of the street from me"; "went in the other direction"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.


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.


Oth"er, adv.
Otherwise. ``It shall none other be.'' --Chaucer. ``If you
think other.'' --Shak.

Synonyms: another(a), different, else, new(a), opposite, other than, otherwise, remaining, some other, strange, unusual

Antonyms: same

See Also: separate

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