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else

[ els ]

adjective

  1. other than the persons or things mentioned or implied:

    What else could I have done?

  2. in addition to the persons or things mentioned or implied:

    Who else was there?

  3. other or in addition (used in the possessive following an indefinite pronoun):

    someone else's money.



adverb

  1. if not (usually preceded by or ):

    It's a macaw, or else I don't know birds.

  2. in some other way; otherwise:

    How else could I have acted?

  3. at some other place or time:

    Where else might I find this book?

else

/ 蓻濒蝉 /

determiner

  1. in addition; more

    there is nobody else here

  2. other; different

    where else could he be?

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adverb

  1. or else
    1. if not, then

      go away or else I won't finish my work today

    2. or something terrible will result: used as a threat

      sit down, or else!

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Grammar Note

The possessive forms of somebody else, everybody else, etc., are somebody else's, everybody else's, the forms somebody's else, everybody's else being considered nonstandard in present-day English. One exception is the possessive for who else, which is occasionally formed as whose else when a noun does not immediately follow: Is this book yours? Whose else could it be? No, it's somebody else's.
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of else1

before 1000; Middle English, Old English elles (cognate with Old High German elles ), equivalent to ell- other (cognate with Gothic aljis, Latin alius, Old Irish aile Greek 谩濒濒辞蝉, Armenian ayl other; eldritch ) + -es -s 1
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of else1

Old English elles, genitive of el- strange, foreign; related to Old High German eli- other, Gothic alja, Latin alius, Greek allos
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. or else, or suffer the consequences:

    Do what I say, or else.

More idioms and phrases containing else

see in someone's (else's) shoes ; or else ; something else ; something else again .
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Example Sentences

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"He puts a lot of time and effort into the club, and his expectations and everyone else's expectations should be way, way higher than that."

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The judge said jurors would no doubt have heard about the case but, when they were selected, they would swear a "solemn" oath to only try it based on the evidence they saw and heard in "the four walls" of the courtroom and nothing else.

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"In the meantime I've had to order flowers from somewhere else," she said.

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鈥淚t clears your mind a little more and you just feel less stressed about everything else.鈥

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"We need a framework. If people don't have an idea of what to do, then very often they will just do nothing or shunt it on to somewhere else," Ms Matuozzo said.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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