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.

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’. …

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

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.

Definition of other adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

You use other at the end of a list or a group of examples, to refer generally to people or things like the ones just mentioned. The quay will incorporate shops, restaurants and other amenities. Place them …

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