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Oth·er, pron. & a. 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.
It is also used, by ellipsis, with a noun, expressed or understood.
To write this, or to design the other. --Dryden.
It is written with the indefinite article as one word, another; is used with each, indicating a reciprocal action or relation; and is employed absolutely, or eliptically for other thing, or other person, in which case it may have a plural.
The fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. --Ps. xlix. 10.
If he is trimming, others are true. --Thackeray.
Other is sometimes followed by but, beside, or besides; but oftener by than.
No other but such a one as he. --Coleridge.
Other lords beside thee have had dominion over us. --Is. xxvi. 13.
For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid. --1 Cor. iii. 11.
The whole seven years of . . . ignominy had been little other than a preparation for this very hour. --Hawthorne.
Other some, some others. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
The other day, at a certain time past, not distant, but indefinite; not long ago; recently; rarely, the third day past.
Bind my hair up: as 't was yesterday?
No, nor t' other day. --B. Jonson.