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OTHER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does other mean?
• OTHER (adjective)
The adjective OTHER has 4 senses:
1. not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied
2. recently past
3. belonging to the distant past
4. very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected
Familiarity information: OTHER used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied
Context example:
went in the other direction
Similar:
different (distinctly separate from the first)
another; some other (any of various alternatives; some other)
different (distinct or separate)
new (other than the former one(s); different)
opposite (the other one of a complementary pair)
opposite (being directly across from each other; facing)
opposite (moving or facing away from each other)
otherwise (other than as supposed or expected)
Also:
separate (independent; not united or joint)
Attribute:
distinctness; otherness; separateness (the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known)
Antonym:
same (same in identity)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Recently past
Context example:
the other evening
Similar:
past (earlier than the present time; no longer current)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Belonging to the distant past
Synonyms:
Context example:
in other times
Similar:
past (earlier than the present time; no longer current)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected
Context example:
a strange, other dimension...where his powers seemed to fail
Similar:
strange; unusual (being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird)
Derivation:
otherness (the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known)
Context examples
If that other fellow doesn't know his happiness, well, he'd better look for it soon, or he'll have to deal with me.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I do not recall any other question which I desired to ask.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But it is a revelation, on the other hand.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
His only apparent ambition, like Dave’s, was to be left alone; though, as Buck was afterward to learn, each of them possessed one other and even more vital ambition.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
My mother glances submissively at them, shuts the book, and lays it by as an arrear to be worked out when my other tasks are done.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But Silver, from the other boat, looked sharply over and called out to know if that were me; and from that moment I began to regret what I had done.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
That carries us right on to the other block.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But while he pounded the one hand, he never ceased from rubbing his nose and cheeks with the other.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
They talk the drum talk to each other.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And there was Laurie, with a full cup in one hand and a plate of ice in the other.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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