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apart

apart

179 1.0
Except for something or someone
  • adverb
  • /əˈpɑrt/
: aparte de
  • I don't have any hobbies apart from reading and writing.
  • quite apart from
  • apart from the fact
  • apart from the occasional

But it was amazing because, you know, apart from the ancestral shit.

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Examples

  • So what are you doing down here, apart from harassing poor Jeff and making Security nervous?

    Fiction book (1991)

  • The belief must therefore have an importance for her quite apart from her sense of identity.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Everything will be the same apart from the foundation.

  • And that kind of sets it apart from those movies in a way.

  • So nothing else to say apart from Palm Island, here I come.

  • So apart from keeping this place a secret, what's the mission?

    The Gorge (2025)

  • And apart from Cleveland, this place has the worst security in the nation.

    Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

  • But it is not only their contents that set these stations apart from all other radio productions.

    Academic text (1991)

  • What makes France stand apart is its extensive use of DRGs.

    Academic text (2017)

  • Animation may provide some account of stylistic shifts apart from technological changes.

    Academic text (2017)

Synonyms

other than
vsapart
∞ 1.0

Not including someone or something

is a single word alternative often replacing that phrase
aside
vsapart
438 4.1

Not including something when you think about a situation

is used more generally and not only after a noun or clause
beside
vsapart
32 1.0

Except for someone or something

is used for exclusion in general and not only of specific people or things
savingly
vsapart
  • Archaic
9.9

Except for a person or thing that is not included

is used more in neutral speech than in formal contexts

Idioms

worlds apart
  • Informal
9 4.5

People or things that are very different and have nothing important in common

to come apart at the seams
  • Informal
5 7.2

To fall apart or stop working properly after being stable

poles apart
  • Informal
1 5.6

Very different from each other in every way

to fall apart like a house of cards
  • Informal
1 6.5

Suddenly fail completely because it is weak or badly built

Compounds

set-apart
3 6.7

Feeling separate from other people or different from them

taking apart
  • Offensive
8.7

To cut something, often a body, into separate pieces

How Inclusive

to exclude
280 3.0
apart
179 1.0
except
∞ 1.0
other than
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

apart positive

Morphology

apart = part (semi-transparent) = a + part

While the components are visible, the idiomatic use 'apart from' = 'except' is a conventional prepositional meaning not fully predictable from 'a-' + 'part'.

Etymology

Think of apart as 'a part' that is set to the side, from a- ('from') and part ('piece' or 'side'). That is why apart from means 'aside from' or 'except for' when you leave something out of a group.