Like many English words, other possesses great flexibility in meaning and function. Over the past few centuries, it has served as an adjective, an adverb, a noun, and a pronoun.

When we use the indefinite article an before other, we write it as one word: another. Another means ‘one more’ or ‘an additional or extra’, or ‘an alternative or different’. …

OTHER definition: additional or further. See examples of other used in a sentence.

2. (a) different (one or ones from that or those already specified or understood): he found some other house; no other man but you; other days were happier. 3. additional; further: there are no other …

You use other at the end of a list or a group of examples, to refer generally to people or things like the ones just mentioned. The quay will incorporate shops, restaurants and other amenities. Place them …

(a) different (one or ones from that or those already specified or understood): they found some other house, no other person but you, other days were happier additional; further: there are no other …

1. A different or an additional person or thing: We'll get someone or other to replace him. 2. others People aside from oneself: "the eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages" (Virginia Woolf).

OTHER meaning: 1 : used to refer to the one person or thing that remains or that has not been mentioned; 2 : used to refer to all the members of a group except the person or thing that has …

Definition of other adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

Dec 14, 2025 · “But then you get here and then you’re being ‘othered’” — viewed as different and separate.