About The Word Else
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What's The Definition Of Else?
[adv] (usually used with `or') if not, then; "watch your step or else you may fall"; "leave or else I'll get angry"
[adv] additional to or different from this one or place or time or manner; "nobody else is here"; "she ignored everything else"; "I don't know where else to look"; "when else can we have the party?"; "couldn't decide how else it could be done" [adj] other than what is under consideration or implied; "ask somebody else"; "I don't know what else to do"; "where else can we look?" Synonyms | Synonyms for Else: other Related Terms | Find terms related to Else: above | added | additionally | again | alias | all included | also | altogether | among other things | and all | and also | and so | another | as well | au reste | beside | besides | beyond | contrarily | elsewise | en plus | extra | farther | for lagniappe | fresh | further | furthermore | in addition | in other respects | in other ways | inter alia | into the bargain | item | likewise | more | moreover | new | not that sort | not the same | not the type | of a sort | of another sort | of sorts | on the side | on top of | or else | other | other than | otherwise | over | peculiar | plus | rare | similarly | special | sui generis | than | then | therewith | to boot | too | unique | yet See Also | Else In Webster's Dictionary \Else\, a. & pron. [OE. & AS. elles otherwise, gen. sing.
of an adj. signifying other; akin to OHG. elles otherwise,
OSw. ["a]ljes, Sw. eljest, Goth. aljis, adj., other, L.
alius, Gr. ?. Cf. {Alias}, {Alien}.]
Other; one or something beside; as, Who else is coming? What
else shall I give? Do you expect anything else? ``Bastards
and else.'' --Shak.
Note: This word always follows its noun. It is usual to give
the possessive form to else rather than to the
substantive; as, somebody else's; no one else's. ``A
boy who is fond of somebody else's pencil case.'' --G.
Eliot. ``A suit of clothes like everybody else's.''
--Thackeray.
\Else\, adv. & conj. 1. Besides; except that mentioned; in addition; as, nowhere else; no one else. 2. Otherwise; in the other, or the contrary, case; if the facts were different. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it. --Ps. li. 16. Note: After `or', else is sometimes used expletively, as simply noting an alternative. ``Will you give thanks, . . . or else shall I?'' --Shak. |
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