other

Meaning

Adj

1. (not-comparable) See other (determiner) below.
2. (not-comparable) Second.
3. (formal, not-comparable) Alien.
4. (not-comparable) Different.
5. (not-comparable, obsolete) Left, as opposed to right.

Noun

1. An other, another (person, etc), more often rendered as another.
2. The other one; the second of two.

Det

Not the one or ones previously referred to.

Adv

Otherwise.

Verb

1. (transitive) To regard, label, or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien.
2. (transitive) To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.

Opposite of

same

Synonyms

another

different

else

some

separate

second

2nd

foreign

additional

next

the others

distinct

more

strange

one more

others

another one

that

remaining

opposite

certain

someone

not quite

rest

somehow

𐐲𐑄𐐲𐑉

one

further

again

🔁

former

other one

other people

it

🇮🇹

other than

otherwise

he

👨

extra

not very good

other ones

miscellaneous

early

too

with

different thing

other party

part

the other one

non-

other person

differ-ent

remaining one of the two

Translations

autre

otro

altro

andere

outro

anderer

ander

alius

ander

altre

başka

άλλος

anders

andere

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʌðə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: other

Inherited from Old English: ōþer

Cognate with Scots: uther

Cognate with Old Frisian: oþer

Cognate with Northern Frisian: üđer

Cognate with Old Saxon: ōthar

Cognate with Old High German: ander

Cognate with Old Norse: annarr

Cognate with Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌸𐌰𐍂

Cognate with Prussian: anters

Cognate with Lithuanian: antroks

Cognate with Latvian: otrs

Cognate with Albanian: ndërroj

Cognate with Sanskrit: अन्तर

In summary

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 anner), Old Dutch āthar, ("other"; > Afrikaans ander, Dutch ander), Old High German andar, ("other"; > Cimbrian andar, German ander, anderer, Luxembourgish aner, Mòcheno ònder, Yiddish אַנדער (ander)), Old Norse annarr, ("other"; > Danish anden, Faroese annar, Icelandic annar, Jamtish æðnen, ænnen, Norwegian Bokmål annen, Norwegian Nynorsk annan, Swedish annan), 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. A true cognate would be Latin anterior.

Sentences

Some went away while I was there , and other people came .

We ignore the other parents who don’t speak French .

One is the normal version and the other is a limited edition .

Classification is , among other things , a discipline of machine learning .

Tabitha on the other hand , chose a more pragmatic approach .

See external links for implementations of many other functions .