Usually means: Different from the previously mentioned.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word other:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. other: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. other, the other: Merriam-Webster
  3. other, other, the Other: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. other: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. other, the other: Collins English Dictionary
  6. other: Vocabulary.com
  7. Other, other, other, other, other, other: Wordnik
  8. other: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. other: Wiktionary
  10. other: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. other: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. other: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Other, other: Dictionary.com
  14. other: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. other: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Other (Alison Moyet album), Other (Doctor Who), Other (Lustmord album), Other (disambiguation), Other (philosophy), Other, The Other (Animorphs), The Other (Applegate novel), The Other (Doctor Who), The Other (King Tuff album), The Other (Tryon novel), The Other (band), The Other (short story), The Other, The other: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Other: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. other: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. other: Rhymezone
  20. other: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. other: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. other: FreeDictionary.org
  23. other: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. other: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. other: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Other: Energy Dictionary
  2. other: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. other: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. OTHER: Vocabulary of Loss: Suicide, Grief, and Ethics
  2. other: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. OTHER: Acronym Finder
  3. other: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. other: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. other, the other: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See othering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  See other (determiner) below.
adjective:  Second.
adjective:  Alien.
adjective:  Different.
adjective:  (obsolete) Left, as opposed to right.
noun:  An other, another (person, etc), more often rendered as another.
noun:  The other one; the second of two.
adverb:  (obsolete) Otherwise.
verb:  (transitive) To regard, label, or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien.
verb:  (transitive) To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.
noun:  (philosophy, psychoanalysis) Radical alterity or otherness conceived or reified as a separate entity; “other people” altogether in their difference from oneself.
noun:  A surname.

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