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say it: UHTH-ur
other is an adjective meaning "not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied". It carries 4 recorded senses.
not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied
“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”
very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected
“a strange, other dimension...where his powers seemed to fail”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for other come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.