Other

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈʌðə(ɹ)/
• US enPR: Å­th′ər, IPA: /ˈʌðɚ/
• AusEn IPA: /ˈaðə/
• Hyphenation: oth + er
• Rhymes: -ʌðə(r)

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,

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").

Full definition of other

Adjective

1. See other (determiner) below
2. second.I get paid every other week.
3. Alien.
• 2010, April 20, anonymous, Letters, 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.
4. Different.
• 2001, Fall, Ralph C. Hancock, The Modern Revolution and the Collapse of Moral Analogy: Tocqueville and Guizot., 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.
5. (obsolete) Left, as opposed to right.
• SpenserA distaff in her other hand she had.

Synonyms

• (not the one previously referred to)
• (contrary to)
• different, disparate
• dissimilar, distinctive
• distinguishable, diverse
• unalike, unlike
• additional, another
• else, farther
• further

Antonyms

• same

Derived terms

• otherish
• other side

Noun

1. An other one, more often rendered as another.
   I'm afraid little Robbie does not always play well with others.
2. The other one; the second of two.
   One boat is not better than the other.
• 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversationsStudy gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
• 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 6, He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.

Determiner

1. Not the one or ones previously referred to.
   Other people would do it differently.
• 1898, Winston Churchill, The Celebrity Chapter 4, The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
• 1922, Ben Travers, A Cuckoo in the Nest Chapter 1, “… the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
    Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer,
  With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. …”
• 2013-07-20, Out of the gloom, solar plant schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.

Antonyms

• same

Derived terms

• this, that, and the other

Adverb

1. Apart from; in the phrase "other than".Other than that, I'm fine.
2. (obsolete) otherwiseIt shall none other be. — Chaucer.If you think other. — Shakespeare.

Related terms

• another
• otherwise

Verb

1. (transitive) To make into an other.
• 2005, Kristen A. Myers, Racetalk: racism hiding in plain sight, "Rican" is code for its homonym, "redskin,"' through which they othered this non-Mexican ethnic group.
• 2006, Angela Pattatucci Aragon, Challenging lesbian norms, That is, whilst Lesfest organisers are othering women who are not born female (thus producing a kind of lesbian-normativity), the Australian WOMAN Network is othering women who have not had surgical sex reassignment (thus producing a kind of "trans-normativity").
• 2010, Ronald L. Jackson, I, Encyclopedia of Identity, Others with admitted addictions are Othered and sadly, forever stigmatized.
2. (transitive) To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.
• 2007, Christopher Emdin, City University of New York. Urban Education, Exploring the contexts of urban science classrooms:In this scenario, the young lady who had spoken had been othered by her peers and her response to my question had been dismissed as invalid despite the fact that she was alright.
3. (transitive) (ethnicity or race) To label as "other".
• 2008, John F. Borland, University of Connecticut, The under-representation of Black females:... and Black males have not taken her seriously politically (gender); and the color of her skin has marginalized her (race and "othered" her when compared with White women, who have also worked to silence her political views.

Derived terms

• otherness

Probably Old English oþþe.

Conjunction

1. (obsolete) or
• 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VII:And if that I had nat had my prevy thoughtis to returne to youre love agayne as I do, I had sene as grete mysteryes as ever saw my sonne Sir Galahad other Percivale, other Sir Bors.

Anagrams

• throe