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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Other: originally and usually preceded by the, with the tone in the preceding clause. See the etymology, and compare tone.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • A colloquial contraction of the other, and formerly a contraction for that other. See the Note under that, 2.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • pronoun Alternative form of tother.

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Examples

  • [_Peeps out, and both see each other; their faces being close together, one at one side the Curtain, and t'other at t'other_.

    The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II Aphra Behn 1664

  • Got a big package from the good folks at Valyrian Steel t'other day, with my very own copies of Needle.

    Needle Is Here! grrm 2010

  • | Private Reply again you show how out of the loop [rhyms with sumthin '] ya are, bubinski. oregunians are fed up with all them californiacs moving ta their fair state, not t'other way-SNORK!

    Page 2 2010

  • T'other two said they'd be blessed if they do it, an 'they didn't; but I kept wearin' into mine to warm up, you know. An 'then the guardians come, an' t'other chaps got run in for fourteen days, an 'the guardians, w'en they see wot I'd been doin', gives me

    THE SPIKE 2010

  • | Private Reply again you show how out of the loop [rhyms with sumthin '] ya are, bubinski. oregunians are fed up with all them californiacs moving ta their fair state, not t'other way-SNORK!

    Page 2 2010

  • Men are kinda like dogs, and a good woman can train 'em to go one way or t'other.

    Ruination Elizabeth Westmark 2011

  • The only difference now was he was a-leaning on t'other side.

    Masdy's Silver dj barber 2011

  • Little Bear guessed salmon, and t'other Little Bear guessed porcupine.

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • Cootsy had had a rough evening, killed a Dwarf and also killed an Elf, one with sex, t'other with an ax.

    Masdy's Silver dj barber 2011

  • | Private Reply again you show how out of the loop [rhyms with sumthin '] ya are, bubinski. oregunians are fed up with all them californiacs moving ta their fair state, not t'other way-SNORK!

    Page 2 2010

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  • Contraction of the other.

    January 1, 2008