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’. …

2. (a) different (one or ones from that or those already specified or understood): he found some other house; no other man but you; other days were happier. 3. additional; further: there are …

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

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 …

Different or distinct from that or those referred to or implied. Use your other foot, not Jane but some other girl.

(a) different (one or ones from that or those already specified or understood): they found some other house, no other person but you, other days were happier additional; further: there are no …

OTHER meaning: 1 : used to refer to the one person or thing that remains or that has not been mentioned; 2 : used to refer to all the members of a group except the person or thing that has …

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.

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 …