other

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   See other (determiner) below.

2. 2

   Second.

   • I get paid every other week.
3. 3

   Alien.

   • In Matthew's account, the law remains intact, as does virtually everything except that critical belief in Jesus as the Messiah (obviously no small thing), and this is not enough to make Matthew completely other from its Jewish origins.
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   1. 4

      Different.

      • it is inherent, rather, in the revolutionary attempt of the West to externalize the idea of a source of meaning wholly other than what is embodied in human conventions and hierarchies.
   2. 5

      Left, as opposed to right.

      • A diſtaffe in her other hand ſhe had, / Vpon the which ſhe litle ſpinnes, but ſpils, / And faynes to weaue falſe tales and leaſings bad, / To throw amongſt the good, which others had diſprad.
   3. 6

      An other, another (person, etc), more often rendered as another.

      • I'm afraid little Robbie does not always play well with others.
      • Show me one other.
   4. 7

      The other one

      The other one; the second of two.

      • One boat is not better than the other.
      • Why not tell one or other of your parents?
      • Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
   5. 8

      Not the one or ones previously referred to.

      • Earning less than $2,000 a month, I have no other source of income except for gifts from relatives.
   6. 9

      Otherwise.

      • I durst, my lord, to wager she is honest, Lay down my soul at state; if you think other, Remove your thought;
      • Weigh also, the pretty escape of the disguised attempt of the party that seemed to be in so great peril, who can believe other, then that it was a made matter, to continue a belief, whom they think they have inchaunted at their wills.
      • That he knew from Monsieur Meerman, I had been the occasion of giving him any Credit in England of an honest sincere Man, and he would never lose mine upon that occasion by giving the King Cause to believe other of him.
   7. 10

      To regard, label, or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group

      To regard, label, or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien.

      • "Rican" is code for its homonym, "redskin," through which they othered this non-Mexican ethnic group.
      • […] and Black males have not taken her seriously politically (gender); and the color of her skin has marginalized her (race and "othered" her when compared with White women, who have also worked to silence her political views.
   8. 11

      To treat as different or separate

      To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.

      • In this scenario, the young lady who had spoken had been othered by her peers and her response to my question had been dismissed as invalid despite the fact that she was alright.
   9. 12

      Radical alterity or otherness conceived or reified as a separate entity

      Radical alterity or otherness conceived or reified as a separate entity; “other people” altogether in their difference from oneself.

      • The transformations of writing bear an ethical as well as an aesthetic or literary significance; writing implies orientation towards the Other in the midst of which a renewal of the self becomes possible.
   10. 13

       A surname.

   11. 14

       A male given name from Old Norse, of rare usage, used as an aristocratic heritage…

       A male given name from Old Norse, of rare usage, used as an aristocratic heritage familial given name.

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