other
not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied
How often you will meet it
Rank 89 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 276,137 times across 175,177 chapters — 0.131% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 100 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adjective
- not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied today isn't any other daythe construction of highways and other public works
- recently past the other evening
- belonging to the distant past also: early, former the early inhabitants of Europeformer generations
- very unusual; different in character or quality from the normal or expected a strange, other dimension...where his powers seemed to fail
other in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Perhaps some other inn will shelter you.
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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His father walked beside him and they understood each other.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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We would have spoken to each other without any introduction.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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To any other man I should have had more to say.
The Betrayal · E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim · Chapter 1
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A century before, a Hawn had settled in one bottom, the lower one, and a Honeycutt in the other.
The Heart of the Hills · John, Jr. Fox · Chapter 1