| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | oth·er |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   th  r |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1a. Being the remaining one of two or more: the other ear. b. Being the remaining ones of several: His other books are still in storage. 2. Different from that or those implied or specified: Any other person would tell the truth. 3. Of a different character or quality: “a strange, other dimension . . . where his powers seemed to fail” (Lance Morrow). 4. Of a different time or era either future or past: other centuries; other generations. 5. Additional; extra: I have no other shoes. 6. Opposite or contrary; reverse: the other side. 7. Alternate; second: every other day. 8. Of the recent past: just the other day. | | NOUN: | 1a. The remaining one of two or more: One took a taxi, and the other walked home. b. others The remaining ones of several: After her departure the others resumed the discussion. 2a. A different person or thing: one hurricane after the other. b. An additional person or thing: How many others will come later? | | PRONOUN: | 1. A different or an additional person or thing: We'll get someone or other to replace him. 2. others People aside from oneself: “the eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages” (Virginia Woolf). | | ADVERB: | In another way; otherwise; differently: The car performed other than perfectly. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old English  ther. See al-1 in Appendix I.
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