Etimology
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 üđer, ööder, ouder), Old Saxon ōthar (“other”), Old High German ander (“other”), Old Norse annarr, ǫðr-, aðr- (“other, second”), Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌸𐌰𐍂 (anþar, “other”), Old Prussian anters, antars (“other, second”), Lithuanian antroks (“other”, pronoun), Latvian otrs, otrais (“second”), Macedonian втор (vtor, "second"), Albanian ndërroj (“to change, switch, alternate”), Sanskrit अन्तर (ántara, “different”)French autre, Spanish otro, Portuguese outro, etc., all from Latin alter, are false cognates.
adjective
other (not comparable)
See other (determiner) below.
Second.
Alien.
Different.
(obsolete) Left, as opposed to right.
Examples
Synonyms: additional, another
Synonym: alternate
I get paid every other week.
Synonym: foreign
In Matthew's account, the law remains intact, as does virtually everything except that critical belief in Jesus as the Messiah , and this is not enough to make Matthew completely other from its Jewish origins.
Synonyms: disparate, dissimilar, distinctive, distinguishable, diverse; see also Thesaurus:different
Antonym: same
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.
noun
other (plural others)
An other, another (person, etc), more often rendered as another.
The other one; the second of two.
Examples
I'm afraid little Robbie does not always play well with others.
One boat is not better than the other.
Why not tell one or other of your parents?
Study 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.
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
other
Not the one or ones previously referred to.
Examples
Other people would do it differently.
The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain 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.
“[…] 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. […]”
“By the way,” Jessamy went on, “what’s your other name? You never told me.” “Stubbs,” said Billy, “William Stubbs!”.
[Rural 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.
Related words
antonyms
same
adverb
other (not comparable)
(obsolete) Otherwise.
Examples
I durst, my lord, to wager she is honest, Lay down my soul at state; if you think other, Remove your thought;
Weigh also, the pretty escape of the disguised attempt of the party that seemed to be in so great peril, who can believe other, then that it was a made matter, to continue a belief, whom they think they have inchaunted at their wills.
That he knew from Monsieur Meerman, I had been the occasion of giving him any Credit in England of an honest sincere Man, and he would never lose mine upon that occasion by giving the King Cause to believe other of him.
Related words
related terms
another
other than
otherwise
verb
other (third-person singular simple present others, present participle othering, simple past and past participle othered)
(transitive) To regard, label, or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien.
(transitive) To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.
Examples
"Rican" is code for its homonym, "redskin," through which they othered this non-Mexican ethnic group.
That is, whilst Lesfest organisers are othering women who are not born female , the Australian WOMAN Network is othering women who have not had surgical sex reassignment .
[…] and Black males have not taken her seriously politically ; 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.
Others with admitted addictions are Othered and sadly, forever stigmatized.
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.