other

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied

   today isn't any other day- the White Queen

2. 2
   adj

   Second.

   I get paid every other week.

3. 3
   adj

   Alien.

   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. 4
   adj

   Different.

   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. 5
   adj

   Left, as opposed to right.

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   An other, another (person, etc), more often rendered as another.

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

7. 7
   noun

   The other one; the second of two.

   One boat is not better than the other.

8. 8
   det

   Not the one or ones previously referred to.

   Earning less than $2,000 a month, I have no other source of income except for gifts from relatives.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂en Proto-Indo-European *-teros Proto-Indo-European *h₂énteros Proto-Germanic *anþeraz Proto-West Germanic *anþar Old English ōþer Middle English other English other From Middle English other, from Old English ōþer (“other, second”), from Proto-West Germanic *ą̄þar, *anþar, from Proto-Germanic *anþeraz (“other, second”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énteros (“other”). Cognate with Scots uther, ither (“other”), Old Frisian ōther, ("other"; > North Frisian ouder, öler, üđer, Saterland Frisian uur, West Frisian oar), Old Saxon ōthar, ("other"; > Low German anne…