Definition/Meaning of except

• English - Verb: except ( third-person singular simple present excepts , present participle excepting , simple past and past participle excepted ) ( transitive ) To exclude; to specify as being an exception . 2007 , Glen Bowersock, ‘Provocateur’, London Review of Books 29:4, page 17: But this [ban on circumcision] must have been a provocation , as the emperor Antoninus Pius later acknowledged by excepting the…
• English - Preposition: except With the exception of; but . There was nothing in the cupboard except a tin of beans . Synonyms apart from bar but other than save Derived terms except for except for opinion Translations
• English - Conjunction: except 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 . 1909 , Archibald Marshall , The Squire's Daughter , chapterII: "I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make ," said Jim , "but I…
• English - Alternative forms: excepte ( rare or archaic )
• English - Etymology: From Middle French excepter , from Latin exceptus .