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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Other \Oth"er\, adv Otherwise. ``It shall none other be.'' --Chaucer. ``If you think other.'' --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Other \Oth"er\ ([u^][th]"[~e]r), conj. [See {Or}.] Either -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). [Obs.] Other of chalk, other of glass. --Chaucer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Other \Oth"er\, pron. & a. [AS. [=o][eth]er; akin to OS [=a][eth]ar, [=o][eth]ar, D. & G. ander, OHG. andar, Icel. annarr Sw annan, Dan. anden, Goth. an[thorn]ar, Skr. antara: cf L. alter; all orig. comparatives: cf Skr. anya other [root]180. Cf {Alter}.] Usage: [Formerly other was used both as singular and plural.] 1. Different from that which or the one who has been specified; not the same not identical; additional; second of two Each of them made other for to win. --Chaucer. Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also --Matt. v. 39. 2. Not this but the contrary; opposite; as the other side of a river. 3. Alternate; second -- used esp. in connection with every; as every other day that is each alternate day every second day 4. Left as opposed to right [Obs.] A distaff in her other hand she had --Spenser. Note: Other is a correlative adjective, or adjective pronoun, often in contrast with one some that this etc The one shall be taken and the other left --Matt. xxiv. 41. And some fell among thorns . . . but other fell into good ground. --Matt. xiii. 7, 8. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: other adj 1: not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied; "today isn't any other day"- the White Queen; "the construction of highways and other public works"; "he asked for other employment"; "any other person would tell the truth"; "his other books are still in storage"; "then we looked at the other house"; "hearing was good in his other ear"; "the other sex"; "she lived on the other side of the street from me"; "went in the other direction" [ant: {same}] 2: further or added; "called for additional troops"; "need extra help"; "an extra pair of shoes"; "I have no other shoes"; "there are other possibilities" [syn: {extra}, {other(a)}, {additional}] 3: recently past; "the other evening" [syn: {other(a)}] 4: of the distant past; "the early inhabitants of Europe"; "former generations"; "in other times" [syn: {early(a)}, {former(a)}, {other(a)}] 5: very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected; "a strange, other dimension...where his powers seemed to fail"- Lance Morrow
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