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

  • It's not bad but neither is it brilliant - which won't bother 99 per cent of buyers one jot as they are in it for the image.
  • These observations will provide a valuable supplement to the simultaneous records of other expeditions, especially the British in McMurdo Sound and the German in Weddell Sea, above all as regards the hypsometer observations (for the determination of altitude) on sledge journeys. The South Pole~ Remarks on the Meteorological Observations at Framheim
  • Intellectual Dublin seemed no longer to consist of writers, but of folk singers, bearded or otherwise.
  • Some of the crew went off-shift, stringing up hybrid bunks and hammocks belowdecks, the others continued working.
  • He wrote and tcanslaited many fortunate connexion « Mr. Boweai other works, and among the rest being unable to pay the costs in-* wa»the author of one play, called curred by the suit in the Spiritual Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:
  • Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
  • Apart from any other objection, a different classification would be reached if the characters were used in a different sequence.
  • I have to find grass and bring it up to them, otherwise they'll die. Times, Sunday Times
  • Demos they may be but these Hazlewood rarities are rounded, rustic country songs: lustrous and lustful, quirkily and dryly humorous, yet poignant stories from the other side of love.
  • But then on the other hand, the whole cosmos or universe is based on this love or compassion.
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