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apart

apart

253 1.0
Except for something or someone
  • adverb
  • /əˈpɑrt/
translation icon : 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

aside
vsapart
463 4.1

Not including something when you think about a situation

is used more generally and not only after a noun or clause
other than
vsapart
350 1.0

Not including someone or something

is a single word alternative often replacing that phrase
beside
vsapart
48 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
6.5

Suddenly fail completely because it is weak or badly built

Compounds

taking apart
  • Offensive
1 8.7

To cut something, often a body, into separate pieces

set-apart
1 6.7

Feeling separate from other people or different from them

How Inclusive

to exclude
338 3.0
apart
253 1.0
except
∞ 1.0
other than
350 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.