English Dictionary: Other | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Other \Oth"er\ ([ucr][th]"[etil]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. [omac][edh]er; akin to OS. [be][edh]ar, [omac][edh]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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Other \Oth"er\, adv. Otherwise. [bd]It shall none other be.[b8] --Chaucer. [bd]If you think other.[b8] --Shak. |