I. verb
1.
Synonyms: exclude , bar, bate, count out, debar, eliminate, rule out, suspend
Related Word: omit, pass over; exempt; reject
Contrasted words: incorporate, receive, work in
Antonyms: admit
2.
Synonyms: object 1, expostulate, inveigh (against), kick, protest, remonstrate
II. preposition
with the exclusion or exception of
except Christmas, we had no long holiday
Synonyms: apart from, aside from, bar, barring, bating, beside, besides, but, ||cep, except for, excluding, exclusive of, outside, outside of, save, saving
III. conjunction
1.
on any other condition than that
wouldn't go near that woman except I had to
Synonyms: but, save, saving, unless, ||without
2.
Synonyms: only , but, however, save, yet