Except

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English

Verb

Except (third-person singular simple present Excepts, present participle Excepting, simple past and past participle Excepted)

  1. (transitive) To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
    • 2007, Glen Bowersock, ‘Provocateur’, London Review of Books 29:4, p. 17:
      But this [ban on circumcision] must have been a provocation, as the emperor Antoninus Pius later acknowledged by excepting the Jews.
  2. (intransitive) To take exception, to object (to or against).
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, vol. 1, New York Review Books 2001, p. 312:
      Yea, but methinks I hear some man except at these words...
    • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin 2005, p. 23:
      The Athenians might fairly except against the practise of Democritus to be buried up in honey; as fearing to embezzle a great commodity of their Countrey
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 96:
      he was a great lover of music, and perhaps, had he lived in town, might have passed for a connoisseur; for he always excepted against the finest compositions of Mr Handel.

Preposition

except

  1. With the exception of; but.
    There was nothing in the cupboard except a tin of beans.

Conjunction

except

  1. With the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated.
    You look a bit like my sister, except she has longer hair.
    I never made fun of her except teasingly.
  2. (archaic) Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.
    • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke IX:
      And they sayde: We have no moo but five loves and two fisshes, except we shulde goo and bye meate for all this people.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York 2001, p. 106:
      Offensive wars, except the cause be very just, I will not allow of.

Quotations

Synonyms for Except

bar, but, save, excepting, excluding, rejecting, exempting, barring, omitting.

Antonyms for Except

including, admitting, embracing.

Derived terms

Thesaurus

abjure, abscind, absolve, amputate, annihilate, apart from, aside from, ban, bar, barring, bate, beside, besides, bob, brush aside, but, chuck, chuck out, clip, contemn, contradict, count out, crop, cull, cut, cut away, cut off, cut out, debar, decline, deny, despise, disapprove, discard, discharge, disclaim, discount, discounting, disdain, dismiss, disown, dispense from, dispense with, disregard, dock, eliminate, enucleate, eradicate, ex, except for, except that, excepting, exception taken of, excise, exclude, excluding, exclusive of, excuse, exempt, expostulate, extinguish, extirpate, forswear, free, from, give dispensation from, grant immunity, however, if not, ignore, inveigh against, isolate, kick, knock off, leave out, leaving out, less, let alone, let go, let off, lop, minus, mutilate, nip, not counting, object, off, omit, omitting, other than, outside of, pare, pass by, pass over, pass up, peel, pick out, precluding, protest, prune, push aside, rebuff, recant, refuse, refuse to consider, reject, release, remise, remit, remonstrate, renounce, repel, repudiate, repulse, root out, rule out, save, save and except, save the necessity, saving, scout, set apart, set aside, shave, shear, shove away, spare, spurn, stamp out, strike off, strip, strip off, suspend, take off, take out, than, throw away, throw out, truncate, turn away, turn out, unless, unless that, waive, were it not, wipe out, without, yet

Pronunciation

Translations

Verb

to exclude
to take exception, to object to
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Preposition

with the exception of

Conjunction

with the exception that

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