other
determiner
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other determiner (ADDITIONAL)
A1
The plan has been opposed by schools, businesses and other local organizations.
These two books will be especially useful for editors, journalists and other professional users of the language.
- Circulars and other junk mail go straight in the bin.
- The site links to about 24 other sites offering clip art.
- This drug can be safely used in combination with other medicines.
- The country has vast oil reserves and rich deposits of other minerals.
- Mr Savino has been charged with three murders as well as a whole slew of other crimes.
other determiner (OPPOSITE)
the other side/end (of sth)
other determiner (DIFFERENT)
He likes travelling abroad and learning about other people's customs and traditions.
See also
the other day, week, etc.
other than
in other words
B2
He was economical with the truth - in other words, he was lying.
or other C1 informal
- All her life she had a childlike trust in other people.
- There's no harm in applying for other jobs, but if I were you, I wouldn't advertise the fact at work.
- The professor was a real Jekyll and Hyde - sometimes kind and charming, and at other times rude and obnoxious.
- The president urged other countries to lift the trade restrictions.
- Children need to be taught to have respect for other people's property.
- a breath of fresh air idiom
- a fine line idiom
- a whole new ballgame idiom
- a world of difference idiom
- alternative
- asymmetric
- chasm
- discordant
- disparate
- disparity
- dissimilar
- dissimilitude
- distinct
- nothing like sb/sth idiom
- nuance
- otherize
- otherness
- the odd one out idiom
- widely
- yawning
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Grammar
other
pronoun
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A2
others [ plural ]
- I lived on my own for a while but I missed the companionship of others.
- Perhaps some systems of government are more corruptible than others.
- This is one possible solution to the problem. However, there are others.
- Some words are more difficult to spell than others.
- Some college courses have stiffer entry requirements than others.
- At the top of the hill I switched off the engine and we just coasted down the other side.
- Trouble broke out in the match when one of the players called a member of the other team a cheat.
- When you run, each foot leaves the ground before the other comes down.
- This cable should have a plug at one end and a socket at the other.
- Roughly half (of) the class are Spanish and the others are a mixture of nationalities.
Grammar
other
adjective
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I guess it doesn’t fit with the historically expected monogamous model, therefore it’s considered other.
There was a fear that under the costume there is something foreign, something terrifying and essentially other.
- a breath of fresh air idiom
- a fine line idiom
- a whole new ballgame idiom
- a world of difference idiom
- alternative
- asymmetric
- chasm
- discordant
- disparate
- disparity
- dissimilar
- dissimilitude
- distinct
- nothing like sb/sth idiom
- nuance
- otherize
- otherness
- the odd one out idiom
- widely
- yawning
