otherとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English other, from 古期英語 ōþer (“other, second”), from Proto-West Germanic *ą̄þar, *anþar, from Proto-Germanic *anþeraz (“other, second”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂énteros (“other”). Cognate with Scots uther, ither (“other”), Old Frisian ōther, ("other"; > North Frisian üđer, ööder, ouder), Old Saxon ōthar (“other”), Old High German ander (“other”), Old Norse annarr, öðr-, 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 अन्तर (ántara, “different”), Sanskrit अन्य (anyá, “other, different”).

形容詞

other (not comparable)

1. See other (determiner) below.

   Synonyms: additional, another

2. Second.

   Synonym: alternate

   I get paid every other week.

3. Alien.

   Synonym: foreign

   • 2010 April 20, anonymous, “Letters”, in Christian Century, volume 127, number 8, page 6:

     In Matthew's account, the law remains intact, as does virtually everything except that critical belief in Jesus as the Messiah (obviously no small thing), and this is not enough to make Matthew completely other from its Jewish origins.

4. Different.

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

   Antonym: same

   • 2001 Fall, Ralph C. Hancock, “The Modern Revolution and the Collapse of Moral Analogy: Tocqueville and Guizot.”, in Perspectives on Political Science, volume 30, number 4, page 213:

     it is inherent, rather, in the revolutionary attempt of the West to externalize the idea of a source of meaning wholly other than what is embodied in human conventions and hierarchies.

5. (obsolete) Left, as opposed to right.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for VVilliam Ponsonby, OCLC 932900760, book V, canto XII, stanza 36, page 351:

     A diſtaffe in her other hand ſhe had, / Vpon the which ſhe litle ſpinnes, but ſpils, / And faynes to weaue falſe tales and leaſings bad, / To throw amongſt the good, which others had diſprad.

派生語

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

名詞

other (複数形 others)

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

   I'm afraid little Robbie does not always play well with others.

2. The other one; the second of two.

   One boat is not better than the other.

   Why not tell one or other of your parents?

   • 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.

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 6, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.

派生語

• others

限定詞

other

1. Not the one or ones previously referred to.

   Other people would do it differently.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698, page 58:

     The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎^[1]:

     “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
       Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”

   • 1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 98:

     “By the way,” Jessamy went on, “what’s your other name? You never told me.” “Stubbs,” said Billy, “William Stubbs!”.

   • 2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

     [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:other.

反意語

• same

派生語

• this, that, and the other

副詞

other (not comparable)

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

   Other than that, I'm fine.

2. (obsolete) Otherwise.
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Reues Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], OCLC 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868, folio xviii, recto, line 5, column 1:

     […] it ſhal none other be.

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

   • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene ii], page 331, column 1:

     If you thinke other, […]

関連する語

• another
• otherwise

動詞

other (三人称単数 現在形 others, 現在分詞 othering, 過去形および過去分詞形 othered)

1. (transitive) To regard, label, or treat as an "other", as not part of the same group; to view as different and alien.
   • 2005, Kristen A. Myers, Racetalk: racism hiding in plain sight:

     "Rican" is code for its homonym, "redskin," through which they othered this non-Mexican ethnic group.

   • 2006, Angela Pattatucci Aragon, Challenging lesbian norms:

     That is, whilst Lesfest organisers are othering women who are not born female (thus producing a kind of lesbian-normativity), the Australian WOMAN Network is othering women who have not had surgical sex reassignment (thus producing a kind of "trans-normativity").

   • 2008, John F. Borland, The under-representation of Black females in NCAA Division I women's basketball head coaching positions‎^[2], University of Connecticut:

     […] and Black males have not taken her seriously politically (gender); and the color of her skin has marginalized her (race and "othered" her when compared with White women, who have also worked to silence her political views.

   • 2010, Ronald L. Jackson, I, Encyclopedia of Identity:

     Others with admitted addictions are Othered and sadly, forever stigmatized.

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.

派生語

• otherer
• othering
• otherize
• otherization

アナグラム

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