apart from

preposition

Except for; besides.

“"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?" - Monty Python, Life of Brian”

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Meanings

preposition
  1. Except for; besides.

    "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?" - Monty Python, Life of Brian

    1 more example

    At Esher we were getting out into bright sunshine, and apart from another foggy patch between Farnborough and Winchfield, we had a clear run from then on.

    1955 April, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 263

    Synonyms: barring, excluding, save for, apart, aside, aside from, bar, barring

Synonyms & antonyms

prepositionExcept for; besides.

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Translations

Arabic بِغَضّ النَظَر عَن
  • بِغَضّ النَظَر عَن (bi-ḡadd an-naẓar ʕan)except for
Catalan a part de
  • a part deexcept for
Chinese Mandarin 除了...以外
  • 除了...以外 (chúle...yǐwài)except for
Danish bortset fra
  • bortset fraexcept for
Dutch afgezien van, behalve
  • afgezien vanexcept for
  • behalveexcept for
Esperanto krom
  • kromexcept for
Finnish lukuun ottamatta
  • lukuun ottamattaexcept for
French à part, mis à part
  • à partexcept for
  • mis à partexcept for
  • exceptéexcept for
  • hormisexcept for
German außer
  • außerexcept for
Greek εκτός από
  • εκτός από (ektós apó)except for
Hebrew מלבד
  • מלבדexcept for
Hungarian kívül, eltekintve
  • kívülexcept for
  • eltekintveexcept for
  • leszámítvaexcept for
Irish amach ó, diomaite de
  • amach óexcept for
  • diomaite deexcept for
Italian a prescindere da, all'infuori di
  • a prescindere daexcept for
  • all'infuori diexcept for
  • fuorchéexcept for
  • tranneexcept for
  • oltreexcept for
Japanese 以外
  • 以外 (igai)except for
Korean 말고, 이외(以外)에
  • 말고 (malgo)except for
  • 이외(以外)에 (ioe-e)except for
Norwegian Bokmål bortsett fra, utenom
  • bortsett fraexcept for
  • utenomexcept for
Persian جدا از
  • جدا از (jodâ az)except for
Polish oprócz, poza
  • opróczexcept for
  • pozaexcept for
Portuguese exceto, fora
  • excetoexcept for
  • foraexcept for
Romanian în afară de, cu excepția
  • în afară deexcept for
  • cu excepțiaexcept for
Russian кро́ме, не счита́я
  • кро́ме (króme)except for
  • не счита́я (ne sčitája)except for
  • за исключе́нием (za isključénijem)except for
  • поми́мо (pomímo)except for
Slovak okrem
  • okremexcept for
Spanish salvo, aparte de
  • salvoexcept for
  • aparte deexcept for
  • fuera deexcept for
Swedish utöver
  • utöverexcept for
Ukrainian крім, не кажучи про
  • крім (krim)except for
  • не кажучи про (ne kažučy pro)except for
  • за винятком (za vynjatkom)except for
Vietnamese ngoại trừ, trừ
  • ngoại trừexcept for
  • trừexcept for
Cite this entry
APA

apart from. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/apart%20from

MLA

“apart from.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/apart%20from. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “apart from,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/apart%20from.

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