without
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- adposition
- /wɪˈðaʊt/
- Literature
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fuera de
- The aim was life in a sealed environment without contact from the outside world.
Examples
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The report emphasized that the community could thrive without outside assistance.
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As it was in the beginning, is now and shall be, world without end.
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We have established safe zones in locations without wireless or cell phone coverage.
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People post and repost these, sharing them without ever checking sources.
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Still, sub-Saharan Africa has never been without its own innovations with regard to plant food.
Academic text (2008) -
It has been a great inconvenience... being without it all these years.
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The program was introduced outside the collective bargaining system and without discussion with the steelworkers' union.
Academic text (1990) -
We flew without wings.
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The poem describes a world without the influences of modern technology.
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In the ancient city, traditions flourished without interruption from outside forces.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
without = (transparent) = with + out
This sense corresponds closely to the literal spatial reading 'outside' or 'beyond', which is directly inferable from the components. [Postprocessing: moved 'with', 'out' from base_words to prefix]
Etymology
Without originally meant 'outside' because it is made of with and out. So when people camp without the city walls they are literally 'outside' them, which is the older, more formal sense of the word.