Like many English words, other possesses great flexibility in meaning and function. Over the past few centuries, it has served as an adjective, an adverb, a noun, and a pronoun.

When we use the indefinite article an before other, we write it as one word: another. Another means ‘one more’ or ‘an additional or extra’, or ‘an alternative or different’. …

OTHER definition: additional or further. See examples of other used in a sentence.

7. or other (preceded by a phrase or word with some) used to add vagueness to the preceding pronoun, noun, noun phrase, or adverb: some dog or other bit him; he's somewhere or other.

You use other to refer to an additional thing or person of the same type as one that has been mentioned or is known about. They were just like any other young couple. The communique gave no other …

Does anyone have any other [= additional, more] ideas? These and other issues will be discussed at the next meeting. The driver's wife and two other passengers were injured in the accident.

on the other (hand), (used to introduce the second of two ideas that contrast with each other): On the one hand, we could go; on the other (hand), we could stay.

Use the adjective other to distinguish something as being different or distinct. You might ask your friend if she's coming to the movies with you, or if she has other plans. If you don't get the first job you …

Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970, a 1999 poetry anthology The Other (Applegate novel), a 2000 Animorphs novel by K.A. Applegate The Other (Tryon novel), a 1971 horror novel by Tom Tryon "The …

Definition of other adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.