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Adjective: other  ú-dhu(r)
  1. Recently past
    "the other evening"
     
  2. Not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied; quantifier, other
    "today isn't any other day"; "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"
     
  3. Belonging to the distant past
    "in other times";
    - early, former
     
  4. Very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected
    "a strange, other dimension...where his powers seemed to fail"
Pronoun: other  ú-dhu(r)
  1. Person or thing not already mentioned
Verb: other  ú-dhu(r)
  1. Treat or regard a person (or group of people) as different and alien

Derived forms: othering, others, othered

See also: another, different, distinctness, new, oddball, opposite, otherness, otherwise, past, separate, separateness, some other, strange, unusual

Antonym: same

Encyclopedia: Other, Like Me