else
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛls/
ipa: /ɛlts/
rhymes: -ɛls
Etymology: From Middle English ells, elles, from Old English elles (“other, otherwise, different”), from Proto-West Germanic *alljas, from Proto-Germanic *aljas (“of another, of something else”), genitive of *aljaz (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos, from *h₂el- (“other”).
Cognate with Old Frisian elles (“other”), Old High German elles, ellies (“other”), Danish eller (“or”), Danish ellers (“otherwise”), Swedish eljes, eljest (“or else, otherwise”), Norwegian elles (“else, otherwise”), Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌹𐍃 (aljis, “other”), Latin alius (“other, another”), Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos), Arcadocypriot αἶλος (aîlos), modern Greek αλλιώς (alliós, “otherwise, else”), Proto-Slavic *olni.
Senses: examples: text: The instructor is busy. Can anyone else help me?
text: Whatever else she may be, she is not a surgeon.
text: When all else fails, read the instructions.
text: Prospero:
Thou hast done well, fine Ariel. Follow me;
Hark what thou else shalt do me.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: As with most else in society, early Americans believed that health and healing were in God's hand.
ref: 2013, Keith T. Krawczynski, Daily Life in the Colonial City:
glosses: Other; in addition to previously mentioned items.
raw_tags: used only with indefinite or interrogative pronouns
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: all else being equal
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: all else the same
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: anybody else
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: anyone else
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: anyplace else
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: anything else
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word: anywhere else
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: elif
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: elsehow
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: elseness
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word: elseward
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word: elseweb
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: elsewhat
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: elsewhen
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: elsewhence
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: elsewhere
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: elsewhither
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: elsewho
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: elsewhom
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word: elsewise
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: elseworld
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word: everybody else
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word: everyone else
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word: everywhere else
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: if all else fails
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: if nothing else
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word: like nobody else
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word: most else
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: much else
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word: nobody else
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: nothing else
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: nothing else for it
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: nowhen else
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: nowhere else
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: somebody else
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: someone else
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word: someplace else
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: something else
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: somewhere else
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word: what else
sense: Terms derived from the adjective else
word: what else is new