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.

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

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’. …

7. or other (preceded by a phrase or word with some) used to add vagueness to the preceding pronoun, noun, noun phrase, or adverb: some dog or other bit him; he's somewhere or other.

You use other in informal expressions of time such as the other day, the other evening, or the other week to refer to a day, evening, or week in the recent past.

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

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 …

(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 additional; further: there are no other …

1. A different or an additional person or thing: We'll get someone or other to replace him. 2. others People aside from oneself: "the eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages" (Virginia …

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.