different between another vs other

English

Alternative forms

• anoda (Jamaican English)
• anotha, anotha' (AAVE- eye dialect)
• nother (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English another, equivalent to an +? other.

Pronunciation

• (UK, unstressed) IPA^(key): /??n?ð.?(?)/
• (UK, stressed) IPA^(key): /æ?n?ð.?(?)/
• (US, unstressed) IPA^(key): /??n?ð.?/
• (US, stressed) IPA^(key): /æ?n?ð.?/
• Rhymes: -?ð?(r)
• Hyphenation: an?oth?er

Determiner

another

1. One more/further, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.

   • Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].
2. Not the same; different.
3. Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; anyone else; someone else.

Usage notes

• As a fused head construction another may have a possessive another's (plural: others, or possessive plural other). It is much used in opposition to one; as, one went one way, another went another. It is also used with one in a reciprocal sense; as, "love one another," that is, let each love the other or others.
  • John Milton

• Another is usually used with a singular noun, but constructions such as "another five days", "another twenty miles", "another few people", "another fifty dollars" are valid too.
• Sometimes, the word whole is inserted into another by the common process of tmesis, giving: "a whole nother." This is a colloquialism that some recommend avoiding in formal writing. The prescribed alternatives are "a whole other" or "another whole".
• There may be ambiguity: "another" may or may not imply "replacement", e.g. "I need another chair." may mean "My chair needs to be replaced." or "I need an additional chair [and I need to keep my existing chair]."

Derived terms

Related terms

• other

Descendants

• Jamaican Creole: anedda

Translations

Pronoun

another

1. An additional one of the same kind.

2. One that is different from the current one.

3. One of a group of things of the same kind.

References

• another in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• on Earth, on earth

Middle English

Alternative forms

• anoþer, a noþer

Etymology

From an other, appearing as a single word starting from the 13th or 14th century.

Pronoun

another

1. another

Descendants

• English: another
  • Jamaican Creole: anedda
• Yola: anoor

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?th??r
• (UK)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??ð?(?)/, [??ð?(?)]
  • (Northern England) IPA^(key): /?ð?/
• (US)
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /??ð?/
• (General Australian, General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /??ð?/, [?äð?]
• Hyphenation: oth?er
• Rhymes: -?ð?(r)

Etymology

From Middle English other, from Old English ?þer (“other, second”), from Proto-Germanic *anþeraz (“other, second”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?énteros (“other”). Cognate with Scots uther, ither (“other”), Old Frisian ?ther, ("other"; > North Frisian ü?er, ööder, ouder), Old Saxon ?thar (“other”), Old High German ander (“other”), Old Norse annarr, øðr-, aðr- (“other, second”), Gothic ???????????????????? (anþar, “other”), Old Prussian anters, antars (“other, second”), Lithuanian antroks (“other”, pronoun), Latvian otrs, otrais (“second”), Albanian ndërroj (“to change, switch, alternate”), Sanskrit ????? (ántara, “different”), Sanskrit ???? (anyá, “other, different”).

Adjective

other (not comparable)

1. See other (determiner) below.

   Synonyms: additional, another

2. Second.

   Synonym: alternate

3. Alien.

   Synonym: foreign
4. Different.

   Synonyms: disparate, dissimilar, distinctive, distinguishable, diverse; see also Thesaurus:different

   Antonym: same
5. (obsolete) Left, as opposed to right.

Derived terms

• otherdom
• otherhood
• otherish
• otherling
• otherly
• otherness
• other rank
• other side

Translations

Noun

other (plural others)

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

2. The other one; the second of two.
   • 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations

     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.

Derived terms

• others

Translations

Determiner

other

1. Not the one or ones previously referred to.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:other.

Antonyms

• same

Derived terms

• this, that, and the other

Translations

Adverb

other (not comparable)

1. Apart from; in the phrase "other than".

2. (obsolete) Otherwise.

Related terms

• another
• otherwise

Translations

Verb

other (third-person singular simple present others, present participle othering, simple past and past participle othered)

1. (transitive) To regard, label, or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien.
2. (transitive) To treat as different or separate; segregate; ostracise.
   • 2007, Christopher Emdin, City University of New York. Urban Education, Exploring the contexts of urban science classrooms:

     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.

Derived terms

• otherer
• othering
• otherize
• otherization

Anagrams

• Rothe, heort-, hetro, rothe, thero-, threo-, throe

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English ?þer. Compare German oder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?oð?r/, /?o?ð?r/

Conjunction

other

1. or; synonym of or

Determiner

other

1. other

Descendants

• English: other
• Yola: ooree, oree

References

• “???ther, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• ?r (Old West Frisian)

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *anþar, from Proto-Germanic *anþeraz, from Proto-Indo-European *h?énteros. Cognates include Old English ?þer, Old Saxon ?thar and Old Dutch andar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?ðer/

Adjective

?ther

1. other
2. second

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: öler

  Hallig: öör

  Helgoland: uur

  Mooring: ouder

  Sylt: ü?er

• Saterland Frisian: uur, our
• West Frisian: oar

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN