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adjective
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other than the persons or things mentioned or implied: What else could I have done?
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in addition to the persons or things mentioned or implied: Who else was there?
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other or in addition (used in the possessive following an indefinite pronoun): someone else's money.
adverb
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if not (usually preceded by or): It's a macaw, or else I don't know birds.
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in some other way; otherwise: How else could I have acted?
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at some other place or time: Where else might I find this book?
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Or else
is always a great word to know.
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| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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or else, or suffer the consequences: Do what I say, or else.
Origin:
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 állos, Armenian ayl other; compare eldritch) + -es -s1
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 állos, Armenian ayl other; compare eldritch) + -es -s1
Usage 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? EXPANDNo, it's somebody else's.
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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? EXPANDNo, it's somebody else's.
COLLAPSE
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Word Origin & History
else
O.E. elles "other, otherwise, different," from P.Gmc. *aljaz (cf. Goth. aljis "other," O.H.G. eli-lenti, O.E. el-lende, both meaning "in a foreign land;" see also Alsace), an adverbial genitive of the neut. of PIE base *al- "beyond" (cf. Gk. allos "other," L. alius; see
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Idioms & Phrases
or else
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Otherwise, in different circumstances, as in Present your case now, or else you won't have a chance. [c. 1300]
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Regardless of any extenuating circumstances, no matter what, as in Be there on time or else! [Second half of 1800s]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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