What is the meaning of other?

adjective

  • Not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied.
    • usage: "today isn't any other day- the White Queen; "the construction of highways and other public works"; "he asked for other employment"; "any other person would tell the truth"; "his other books are still in storage"; "then we looked at the other house"; "hearing was good in his other ear"; "the other sex"; "she lived on the other side of the street from me"; "went in the other direction"
  • Recently past.
    • usage: "the other evening"
  • Belonging to the distant past.
    • usage: "the early inhabitants of Europe"; "former generations"; "in other times"
  • Very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected. "a strange, other dimension... Where his powers seemed to fail- Lance Morrow
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