"other" - meanings, definitions, synonyms, thesaurus and antonyms

\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.

\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.

\Oth"er\, adv.
Otherwise. ``It shall none other be.'' --Chaucer. ``If you
think other.'' --Shak.