Definitions for: 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?"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: other

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