other

Meanings

Adjective

• See other (determiner) below.
• Second.
• Alien.
• Different.
• Left, as opposed to right.

Noun

• An other, another (person, etc), more often rendered as another.
• The other one; the second of two.

Adverb

• Apart from; in the phrase "other than".
• Otherwise.

Verb

• To regard, label or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien.
• To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.

Related

Opposite words

• same

Origin

• , Old Saxon ōthar ("other"), Old High German ander ("other"), Old Norse annarr, ǫðrum, aðru, Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌸𐌰𐍂 ("other"), Old Prussian anters, antars, Lithuanian antroks ("other"), Latvian otrs, otrais, Albanian ndërroj ("to change, switch, alternate"), Sanskrit अन्तर ("different"), Sanskrit अन्य ("other, different").