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other
adj
    1. Remaining from a group of two or more when one or some have been specified already.
      Example: Now close the other eye
      Thesaurus: some, a few, a number, a handful, not many, two or three, many.
    2. Different from the one or ones already mentioned, understood or implied.
      Example: other people
      Thesaurus: alternative, different, separate.
    3. Additional; further.
      Example: need to buy one other thing
      Thesaurus: added, further, another, extra, spare; new, fresh.
    4. Far or opposite.
      Example: the other side of the world
pronoun
    1a. Another person or thing;
    1b. Other people or things.
      Form: others
    2. Further or additional ones.
      Example: I'd like to see some others
      Form: others
    3. The remaining people or things of a group.
      Example: Go with the others
      Form: the others (usually)
adverb
    1. Otherwise; differently.
      Example: couldn't do other than hurry home
      Form: other than (usually)
noun
    1. Someone or something considered separate, different, additional to, apart from, etc the rest.
      Example: introduced him as his significant other
    2. literary theory.
      In Lacanian terms: someone who does not belong to a specified social, cultural, racial, etc group and who is therefore excluded from participation in the predominant group's interpretation of eg literary texts.
      Form: Other (often)
Derivative: otherness
noun
    The fact or condition of being other or different.
Idiom: every other
    Each alternate; every second.
      Example: see him every other week
Idiom: in other words
    This means.
      Example: ‘I've really no time.' ‘In other words you can't do it?'
Idiom: other than ...
    Except ...; apart from ....
      Example: Other than that, there's no news
    Different from ....
      Example: do something other than watch TV
Idiom: other things being equal
    Circumstances or conditions being unchanged.
Idiom: someone or other (something or other, somewhere etc or other)
    Some unspecified person, thing or place, etc.
      Example: It's here somewhere or other
Idiom: the other day (the other week etc)
    A few days or weeks etc ago.
Idiom: the other man (the other woman)
    The lover of a woman or man who is already married or in a relationship.
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon.



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