except
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
except/ɪkˈsept/
▶preposition not including; other than. ▶conjunction
- 1 used before a statement that forms an exception to one just made.
- 2 archaic unless.
– origin ME: from L. except-, excipere ‘take out’.
'except' also found in these Oxford entries:
Achilles heel
- advanced level
- advanced subsidiary level
- all
- apart
- AS level
- bar
- barring
- beyond
- billabong
- but
- Celtic
- cloaca
- coloured
- cyclopedia
- daily
- damper
- discord
- Doctor of Philosophy
- excepting
- excluding
- fascia
- fossil
- gotten
- half-hardy
- hang
- high school
- hurst
- hussar
- isle
- lithography
- -man
- materialism
- mere
- Mohican
- monounsaturated
- mount
- neutron
- only
- ordinary level
- orthochromatic
- periosteum
- personal property
- poikilotherm
- save
- saving
- soccer
- spruit
- subjunctive
