others

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

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others

1. plural of other

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 222716698, 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.

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

others

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of other

• others on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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