Usually means: Alternative option if conditions unmet.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word else:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. else: Merriam-Webster
  2. else, else: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. else: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. else: Collins English Dictionary
  5. else: Vocabulary.com
  6. Else, else, else: Wordnik
  7. else: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. else: Wiktionary
  9. else: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. else: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. else: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Else, else: Dictionary.com
  13. else: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. else: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Else (Werre), Else (given name), Else (programming), Else, The Else: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Else: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. else: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. else: Rhymezone
  19. else: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. else: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. else: FreeDictionary.org
  22. else: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. else: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. else: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. else: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. ELSE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. else: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. else: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  (postpositive, used only with indefinite or interrogative pronouns) Other; in addition to previously mentioned items.
▸ adverb:  (usually follows interrogative adverbs) Otherwise, if not.
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:
other, additional, added, anything, nobody, what, anyone, anybody, nothing, whatever, more...

Opposite:
same, identical, similar, equivalent, alike

Types:
other, something else, something else yet, more...

Phrases:
someone else, something else, Anything Else, anyone else, or else, more...

Adjectives:
much, little, then, everything, sure, what, someone, precious, litde, mortal, mild


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Similar:
other, additional, added, anything, nobody, what, anyone, anybody, nothing, whatever, more...

Opposite:
same, identical, similar, equivalent, alike

Types:
other, something else, something else yet, more...

Phrases:
someone else, something else, Anything Else, anyone else, or else, nothing else, Everyone Else, anywhere else, somewhere else, anybody else, everywhere else, dangling else, if all else fails, nothing else for it, more...

Adjectives:
much, little, then, everything, sure, what, someone, precious, litde, mortal, mild



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