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other - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'other' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Other [ adv.]
- Otherwise.
2 . Other [ conj.]
- Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used).
3 . Other [ pron. & a.]
- Different from that which, or the one who, has been specified; not the same; not identical; additional; second of two.
- Not this, but the contrary; opposite; as, the other side of a river.
- Alternate; second; -- used esp. in connection with every; as, every other day, that is, each alternate day, every second day.
- Left, as opposed to right.

Meaning of 'other' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . other [ a]
Meaning (1):
- not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied
Example in sentence:
  • any other person would tell the truth;
  • he asked for other employment;
  • hearing was good in his other ear;
  • his other books are still in storage;
  • she lived on the other side of the street from me;
  • the construction of highways and other public works;
  • the other sex;
  • then we looked at the other house;
  • today isn't any other day;
  • went in the other direction
2 . other [ s]
Meaning (2):
- very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected
Example in sentence:
  • a strange, other dimension...where his powers seemed to fail
Meaning (3):
- belonging to the distant past
Example in sentence:
  • former generations;
  • in other times;
  • the early inhabitants of Europe
Meaning (4):
- recently past
Example in sentence:
  • the other evening