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, the other: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. other, other, the Other: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. other: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. other, the other: Collins English Dictionary
  5. other: Vocabulary.com
  6. Other, other, other, other, other, other: Wordnik
  7. other: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. other: Wiktionary
  9. other: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. other: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. other: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Other, other: Dictionary.com
  13. other: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. other: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. 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
  16. Other: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. other: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. other: Rhymezone
  19. other: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. other: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. other: Free Dictionary
  22. other: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. other: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. other: Dictionary/thesaurus
  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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