adjective / determiner / pronoun / noun
other
UTH-er/ˈʌðɝ/
Different from those already mentioned or considered.
Someone points to the other coat hanging on a hook.
Etymology
Old English oþer covered both “second” and “different or additional.” English later adopted “second” for numerical order to avoid ambiguity, leaving “other” to distinguish an alternative or addition.
In context
West Indies is that we should stop imitating other people and do our own thing
More examples
- Do you have any other questions?
- Some guests leave early, but others stay for dessert.
- The novel explores how a community treats outsiders as the other.
Forms
other · others
otherness noun — The quality of being fundamentally different.
Similar words
- different
- Emphasizes being unlike something, rather than being an alternative.
- additional
- Specifically means extra, not necessarily different in kind.
- another
- Refers to one more or a different single item.