elseadverb
uk/els/us/els/A2 used after words beginning with any-, every-, no-, and some-, or after how, what, where, who, why, but not which, to mean 'other', 'another', 'different', 'extra':
Everybody else has (= all the other people have) agreed except for you.
If it doesn't work, try something else (= something different).
Let's go before they ask us to visit anyone else (= another person).
It's not my bag. It must be someone else's (= it must belong to another person).
The book isn't here. Where else (= in what other place) should I look?
He came to see you. Why else (= for what other reason) would he come?
After I'd thanked them I didn't know what else (= what other things) to say.
More examples
- She arrived before everyone else.
- Some species exist in this small area of forest and nowhere else on earth.
- I'm not buying the children anything else today - I've spent far too much money already.
- He looked nervously over his shoulder, making sure no one else was listening.
- I'm sorry, I don't know - you'll have to ask someone else.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Different and difference
- a breath of fresh air idiom
- a whole new ballgame idiom
- a world of difference idiom
- alternative
- another
- clash
- contrary
- differential
- distinction
- distinctive
- distorted
- diverge
- divergence
- divide
- permutation
- refreshing
- several
- step
- sundry
- tangential
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Also, extra, and in addition
Idiom(s)
or else