others

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈʌðəz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈʌðɚz/

• Audio (General American):

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Noun

others

1. plural of other

Noun

others pl (plural only)

1. Other people.

   I treat others like I treat myself.

   • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3: From Ashes (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, PC, scene: Normandy SR-2, Post Priority: Tuchanka:

     Javik: Do not care what others think. Do what you must.

2. Those remaining after one or more people or items have left, or done something else, or been excluded.

   Two decided to hide, the others surrendered.   I kept two special jars and threw away all the others.

   • 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, pages 58–59:

     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. […] Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with other's (“belonging to the other”).

Derived terms

• do unto others
• do unto others as you would have them do unto you
• he who digs a pit for others falls in himself
• play well with others

 

Translations

other people

• Arabic: آخَرُون (ʔāḵarūn)

  Gulf Arabic: ثانين (ṯānīn)

• Asturian: otros (ast) m pl
• Bengali: উখরা (ukhora)
• Catalan: altres (ca) m pl
• Cherokee: ᎠᏂᏐᎢ (anisoi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 第啲人 (dai⁶ di¹ jan⁴), 人哋 (jan⁴ dei⁶), 別人／别人 (bit⁶ jan⁴), 其他人 (kei⁴ taa¹ jan⁴), 别人 (bit⁶ jan⁴) (literary)

  Mandarin: 其他人 (qítārén), 別人／别人 (zh) (biérén)

• Czech: ostatní (cs) m pl
• Finnish: toiset (fi), muut (fi)
• French: les autres (fr) m pl or f pl
• Galician: outros m pl
• German: andere (de) m pl, Andere (de) m pl
• Greek: άλλοι (álloi)
• Hungarian: mások (hu)
• Irish: an mhuintir eile
• Khmer: ឯទៀត (ae tiət)
• Latin: aliī m pl
• Manchu: ᡤᡡᠸᠠ (gūwa)
• Maori: ētahi atu
• Mirandese: outros
• Ottoman Turkish: ایل (il)
• Persian: دیگران (fa) pl (digarân), بقیه (fa) pl (baqiye)
• Polish: inni (pl), inne (pl)
• Portuguese: (os) outros
• Romanian: alții m pl, altele f pl or n pl
• Russian: други́е (ru) (drugíje)
• Scottish Gaelic: càch
• Spanish: otros (es) m pl, demás (es) m pl
• Swedish: andra (sv)
• Yiddish: אַנדערע (andere)

those remaining after something has been excluded

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 其他 (zh) (qítā)

• Czech: ostatní (cs) m pl
• Finnish: toiset (fi), muut (fi), loput (fi)
• German: Andere (de) pl
• Greek: οι άλλοι (oi álloi)
• Hungarian: (people or animals) többiek (hu), (things or other beings) többi (hu)
• Lithuanian: kiti pl
• Polish: inne (pl)
• Russian: други́е (ru) (drugíje), остальны́е (ru) (ostalʹnýje)
• Spanish: otros (es) m pl

Verb

others

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of other

Further reading

• others on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Rothes, Stoehr, Tosher, hetros, hoster, re-shot, rehost, reshot, short e, shorte, shoter, throes, tosher