Meaning

See other (determiner) below..

Definitions by Sense

1. See other (determiner) below.
2. Second.
3. (formal) Alien.
4. (formal or puristic) Different.
5. (obsolete) Left, as opposed to right.
6. An other, another (person, etc), more often rendered as another.
7. The other one; the second of two.
8. Not the one or ones previously referred to.

Example Sentences

I get paid every other week.

In Matthew's account, the law remains intact, as does virtually everything except that critical belief in Jesus as the Messiah (obviously no small thing), and this is not enough to make Matthew completely other from its Jewish origins.

it is inherent, rather, in the revolutionary attempt of the West to externalize the idea of a source of meaning wholly other than what is embodied in human conventions and hierarchies.

A diſtaffe in her other hand ſhe had, / Vpon the which ſhe litle ſpinnes, but ſpils, / And faynes to weaue falſe tales and leaſings bad, / To throw amongſt the good, which others had diſprad.

I'm afraid little Robbie does not always play well with others.

Show me one other.

One boat is not better than the other.

Why not tell one or other of your parents?

Word Forms

• others
• othering
• othered

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When Should You Use Other?

Use other when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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