other
其他,其它,其他的,另外
Related Words
Definitions
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- : additional or further: he and one other person.
- : different or distinct from the one or ones already mentioned or implied: I'd like to live in some other city.The TV show follows the lives of people who are married, single, or other.The application gives three gender choices—male, female, and other.
- : different in nature or kind: I would not have him other than he is.
- : being the remaining one of two or more: the other hand.
- : being the remaining ones of a number: the other men; some other countries.
- : former; earlier: sailing ships of other days.
- : not long past: the other night.
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- : the other one: Each praises the other.
- : the other, a group or member of a group that is perceived as different, foreign, strange, etc.: Prejudice comes from fear of the other.a person or thing that is the counterpart of someone or something else: the role of the Other in the development of self.
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- : Usually others . other persons or things: others in the medical profession.
- : some person or thing else: Surely some friend or other will help me.
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- : otherwise; differently: We can't collect the rent other than by suing the tenant.
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- : to perceive or treat as different, foreign, strange, etc.: Female murderers are othered by characterizing them as psychological oddities.
Phrases
- other day, the
- other fish to fry
- other good fish in the sea
- other side of the coin
- other side of the tracks
- other than
- other things being equal
- other way round, the
- at each other's throats
- do unto others
- each other
- every other
- in one ear and out the other
- in someone's pocket (live in each other's pockets)
- in other words
- laugh out of the other side of one's mouth
- look the other way
- made for (each other)
- none other than
- on the one (the other) hand
- or other
- right (other) side of the tracks
- shoe is on the other foot
- six of one, half a dozen of the other
- the other day
- this and that (and the other)
- turn the other cheek
- wait for the other shoe to drop
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Fairylands is a name that conjures up a dreamy, other-worldly place, somewhere to escape the cares of a busy life.
She means well, and she's trying, clearly, to be some more real-world version of her other-worldly sister.
This can lead to an other-than-honorable discharge, a bad-conduct discharge, or a dishonorable discharge.
And with all this change, so curiously parallel to that of the Other-world, goes too the same inevitable change in ideals.
We would talk off and on, just checking-up-on-each-other kind of thing.
His name was Lefty something-or-other, and he was about the sneakiest stool the department had.
Rodney is thoroughly and comfortably this-worldly; Michael is—other-worldly!
In conclusion, we must consider an offshoot of other-world ideas—the belief in the transmigration of souls.
As a matter of fact, the retributive idea is far from being implicated with other-world hopes.
Intellectualism may not always be so clearly other-worldly as Plato shows himself to be in this passage.