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the other day

the other day adverb: recently; lately; a few days ago.

Adverb

the other day

  1. (idiomatic) Recently; lately; a few days ago.
    • I saw your friend William the other day. He says hi.
    • Where were you the other day? We missed you down at the firehall.
  2. (Philippines) The day before yesterday.

Noun

the other day

  1. (Philippines) the day before yesterday.

the other day meaning in Tamil, Arabic, Persian and Vietnamese

the other day in Tamil

பொஞ்ச காலத்துக்க முன்

the other day in Arabic

lately
مُنْذُ بِضْعَةْ أَيَّام munḏu biḍʕat ʔayyām, بِالْأَمْس bi-l-ʔams, مُنْذُ عَهْد قَرِيب munḏu ʕahd qarīb, مُنْذُ فَتْرَة قَرِيبَة, مُؤَخَّرًا muʔaḵḵaran, حَدِيثًا ḥadīṯan

the other day in Persian

lately
اَخیراً, چَند روز پیش, به تازگی

the other day in Vietnamese

lately
hôm nọ

Examples of the other day in a sentence

  • San Francisco, eh? That's funny, I was there just the other day.
  • It was only the other day that Persia woke up from her age-long sleep at the call of the West to be instantly trampled into stillness by the Nation.1918, Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism, London: Macmillan:
  • I emerged from the Underground station at London King's Cross the other day to find a dense throng of people filling the main line station's concourse.2024 August 21, Philip Haigh, “Stranded trains: problems for passengers and operators”, in RAIL, number 1016, page 52:

Questions about the other day

What does the other day mean?
The other day means recently; lately; a few days ago.
What is the other day in Tamil?
The other day in Tamil is பொஞ்ச காலத்துக்க முன். See The other day meaning in Tamil.
How do you use the other day in a sentence?
San Francisco, eh? That's funny, I was there just the other day.
What part of speech is the other day?
The other day can be an adverb or a noun.

Words near the other day in the dictionary

  1. the ones
  2. the organ grinder, not the monkey
  3. the organ grinders, not the monkeys
  4. the organ-grinder, not the monkey
  5. the other body
  6. the other day
  7. the other place
  8. the other way
  9. the other way around
  10. the other way round
  11. the other white meat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: the other day (page history and authors); the other day (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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