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NGSL Rank: 53
other
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Meanings
adjective
  • denoting a person or thing that is different or distinct from one already mentioned or known about.
    E.g. stick the camera on a tripod or some other means of support
  • further; additional.
    E.g. one other word of advice
pronoun
  • a person or thing that is different or distinct from one already mentioned or known about.
    E.g. a language unrelated to any other
  • a further or additional person or thing of the type aleady mentioned.
    E.g. he is the author of five books and collaborated on three others
  • used euphemistically to refer to sex.
    E.g. a bit of the other
  • that which is distinct from, different from, or opposite to something or oneself.
    E.g. she needs to escape the tyranny of the Other
verb
  • view or treat (a person or group of people) as intrinsically different from and alien to oneself.
    E.g. a critique of the ways in which the elderly are othered by society

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