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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024else /ɛls/USA pronunciation adj. [after words like who, what, when, how, etc. in questions;
after pronouns like someone, anything, no one, much, etc.]- other than those persons or things mentioned: What else could I do? I would have eaten anything else.
- in addition to persons or things mentioned: Who else was there?
- other (used in the possessive after a pronoun and before the noun that is possessed): someone else's money.
adv. - if not:[or + ~]Watch your step, or else you'll slip.
- otherwise:How else could I have acted?
Idioms- Idioms or else, or suffer the consequences: Do exactly what I say, or else.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024else (els),USA pronunciation adj. - other than the persons or things mentioned or implied:What else could I have done?
- in addition to the persons or things mentioned or implied:Who else was there?
- other or in addition (used in the possessive following an indefinite pronoun):someone else's money.
adv. - if not (usually prec. by or):It's a macaw, or else I don't know birds.
- in some other way;
otherwise:How else could I have acted? - at some other place or time:Where else might I find this book?
- Idioms or else, or suffer the consequences:Do what I say, or else.
- bef. 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 állos, Armenian ayl other; compare eldritch) + -es -s1
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. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: else /ɛls/ determiner (postpositive; used after an indefinite pronoun or an interrogative)- in addition; more: there is nobody else here
- other; different: where else could he be?
adv - or else ⇒ if not, then: go away or else I won't finish my work today
- or something terrible will result: used as a threat: sit down, or else!
Etymology: Old English elles, genitive of el- strange, foreign; related to Old High German eli- other, Gothic alja, Latin alius, Greek allos |