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See also:oþerandOther

English

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Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European*h₂en
Proto-Indo-European*-teros
Proto-Indo-European*h₂énteros
Proto-Germanic*anþeraz
Proto-West Germanic*anþar
Old Englishōþer
Middle Englishother
Englishother

    FromMiddle Englishother, fromOld Englishōþer(other, second), fromProto-West Germanic*ą̄þar,*anþar, fromProto-Germanic*anþeraz(other, second), fromProto-Indo-European*h₂énteros(other).

    Cognate withScotsuther,ither(other),Old Frisianōther,("other"; >North Frisianouder,öler,üđer,Saterland Frisianuur,West Frisianoar),Old Saxonōthar,("other"; >Low Germananner),Old Dutchāthar,("other"; >Afrikaansander,Dutchander),Old High Germanandar,("other"; >Cimbrianandar,Germanander,anderer,Luxembourgishaner,Mòchenoònder,Yiddishאַנדער(ander)),Old Norseannarr,("other"; >Danishanden,Faroeseannar,Icelandicannar,Jamtishæðnen,ænnen,Norwegian Bokmålannen,Norwegian Nynorskannan,Swedishannan),Gothic𐌰𐌽𐌸𐌰𐍂(anþar,other),Old Prussiananters,antars(other, second),Lithuanianantroks(other,pronoun),Latvianotrs,otrais(second),Macedonianвтор(vtor,second),Albanianndërroj(to change, switch, alternate),Sanskritअन्तर(ántara,different).

    Frenchautre,Spanishotro,Portugueseoutro, etc., all fromLatinalter, arefalse cognates. A truecognate would beLatinanterior.

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    Adjective

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    other (notcomparable)

    1. Seeother (determiner) below.
      Synonyms:additional,another
    2. Second.
      Synonym:alternate
      I get paid everyother week.
    3. (formal)Alien.
      Synonym:foreign
      • 2010 April 20, anonymous author, “Letters”, inChristian Century, volume127, number 8, page 6:
        In Matthew's account, the law remains intact, as does virtually everything except that critical belief in Jesus as the Messiah (obviously no small thing), and this is not enough to make Matthew completelyother from its Jewish origins.
    4. (formal or puristic)Different.
      Synonyms:disparate,dissimilar,distinctive,distinguishable,diverse;see alsoThesaurus:different
      Antonym:same
      • 2001 Fall, Ralph C. Hancock, “The Modern Revolution and the Collapse of Moral Analogy: Tocqueville and Guizot.”, inPerspectives on Political Science, volume30, number 4, page213:
        it is inherent, rather, in the revolutionary attempt of the West to externalize the idea of a source of meaning whollyother than what is embodied in human conventions and hierarchies.
    5. (obsolete) Left, as opposed to right.

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    not the one previously referred to
    contrary to
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    Noun

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    other (pluralothers)

    1. An other, another (person, etc), more often rendered asanother.
      I'm afraid little Robbie does not always play well withothers.
    2. The other one; the second of two.
      One boat is not better than theother.
      Why not tell one orother of your parents?
      • 1699,William Temple,Heads designed for an essay on conversations[1]:
        Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, theother suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, theother polishes it.
      • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:
        He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in theother and was swabbing his deadlights with it.

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    an other one

    Determiner

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    other

    1. Not the one or ones previously referred to.
      Earning less than $2,000 a month I have noother source of income except for gifts from relatives.
      • 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter IV, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC,page58:
        The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and twoother ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
      • 1921,Ben Travers, chapter 1, inA Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.:Doubleday, Page & Company, published1925,→OCLC:
        [] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send toother people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
          Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer.[]
      • 1967,Barbara Sleigh,Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published1993,→ISBN, page98:
        “By the way,” Jessamy went on, “what’s yourother name? You never told me.” “Stubbs,” said Billy, “William Stubbs!”.
      • 2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, inThe Economist, volume408, number8845:
        [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry orother heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
      • For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:other.

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    not the one referred to

    Adverb

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    other (notcomparable)

    1. (obsolete)Otherwise.
      • c.1603–1604 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act IV, scene ii],page331, column 1:
        I durst, my lord, to wager she is honest, Lay down my soul at state; if you thinkother, Remove your thought;
      • 1655,The Compleat Ambassador or two treatises of the intended marriage of Queen Elizabeth of glorious memory, page321:
        Weigh also, the pretty escape of the disguised attempt of the party that seemed to be in so great peril, who can believeother, then that it was a made matter, to continue a belief, whom they think they have inchaunted at their wills.
      • 1740, William Temple,Letters written by Sir William Temple, bart., and other ministers of state, both at home and abroad, page184:
        That he knew from Monsieur Meerman, I had been the occasion of giving him any Credit in England of an honest sincere Man, and he would never lose mine upon that occasion by giving the King Cause to believeother of him.

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    Verb

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    other (third-person singular simple presentothers,present participleothering,simple past and past participleothered)

    1. (transitive) To regard, label, or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different andalien.
      • 2005, Kristen A. Myers,Racetalk: racism hiding in plain sight:
        "Rican" is code for its homonym, "redskin," through which theyothered this non-Mexican ethnic group.
      • 2006, Angela Pattatucci Aragon,Challenging lesbian norms:
        That is, whilst Lesfest organisers areothering women who are not born female (thus producing a kind of lesbian-normativity), the Australian WOMAN Network isothering women who have not had surgical sex reassignment (thus producing a kind of "trans-normativity").
      • 2008, John F. Borland,The under-representation of Black females in NCAA Division I women's basketball head coaching positions[2], University of Connecticut:
        [] and Black males have not taken her seriously politically (gender); and the color of her skin has marginalized her (race and "othered" her when compared with White women, who have also worked to silence her political views.
      • 2010, Ronald L. Jackson, I,Encyclopedia of Identity:
        Others with admitted addictions areOthered and sadly, forever stigmatized.
      • 2024 February 16, Colette Coleman, “Blaxit: Tired of Racism, Black Americans Try Life in Africa”, inThe New York Times[3], New York, N.Y.:The New York Times Company,→ISSN,→OCLC:
        “You’re coming here and you’re expecting that everybody’s Black, so I’m going to be OK,” Ms. Davis said. “But then you get here and then you’re being ‘othered’” — viewed as different and separate.
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    2. (transitive) To treat asdifferent orseparate;segregate;ostracise.
      • 2007, Christopher Emdin, City University of New York. Urban Education,Exploring the contexts of urban science classrooms:
        In this scenario, the young lady who had spoken had beenothered by her peers and her response to my question had been dismissed as invalid despite the fact that she was alright.

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    otherizeseeotherize

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    Middle English

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    Etymology

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      FromOld Englishōþer. CompareGermanoder.

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      • IPA(key): /ˈuðər/,/ˈoːðər/

      Conjunction

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      other

      1. or;synonym ofor
        • 1470–1485 (date produced),Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in[Le Morte Darthur], book VII, [London: [] byWilliam Caxton], published31 July 1485,→OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor,Le Morte Darthur [], London:David Nutt, [],1889,→OCLC:
          And if that I had nat had my prevy thoughtis to returne to youre love agayne as I do, I had sene as grete mysteryes as ever saw my sonne Sir Galahadother Percivale,other Sir Bors.
          (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)

      Adjective

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      other

      1. other

      Pronoun

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      other

      1. other

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      Adverb

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      other

      1. otherwise

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      Old Frisian

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      Old Frisian numbers(edit)
       ←  12
         Cardinal:twēne
         Ordinal:ōther
         Fractional:twēde

      Alternative forms

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      • ōr(Old West Frisian)

      Etymology

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      FromProto-West Germanic*anþar, fromProto-Germanic*anþeraz, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂énteros. Cognates includeOld Englishōþer,Old Saxonōthar andOld Dutchandar.

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      ōther

      1. other
      2. second

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      • Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009),An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company,→ISBN

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      Pronoun

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      other

      1. alternative form ofoother
        • 1867, “DR. RUSSELL ON THE INHABITANTS AND DIALECT OF THE BARONY OF FORTH”, inAPPENDIX:
          Fad didn'st thou cum t' ouz on zumother dey?
          [Why didn't you come to us on someother day?]

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      • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page131
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