Dictionary Entry

else

Part of SpeechadjectivePronunciation/ɛls/Used In Literature ↓

(used only with indefinite or interrogative pronouns) Other; in addition to previously mentioned items.

In a Sentence

“The instructor is busy. Can anyone else help me?”

Origin

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Common Phrases

. elseelse someoneelse anythingelse somethingelse nothingelse anyoneelse one

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Poetry examples for “else”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

But there he will lie as they laid him:
Where else could you trust him to sleep?

Why bade ye else, ye Powers! her soul aspire
Above the vulgar flight of low desire?

This day, be bread and peace my lot:
All else beneath the sun,
Thou know'st if best bestowed or not;

And (what most folks would think a jest)
Want nothing else except your wife.

And thus through mists we see the sun,
Which, else we durst not gaze upon.

And swore he long’d at college, only long’d,
All else was well, for she-society.
They boated and they cricketed ; they talk’d

Or else the child of Anton, and no king,

A leaning and upbearing parasite,
Clothing the stem, which else had
fallen quite

At my bright hair;
Nought else exalts or grieves
The rose at heart, that heaves

All joys else might sooner pall or cloy
Love than this which inly takes its fill,