else

adjective[after a noun]1

1. •
   other or extra, besides those already mentioned, used after words such as "anyone", "what" and "where"

   • The instructor is busy. Can anyone else help me?
   • Whatever else she may be, she is not a surgeon.

adverb1

1. •
   Otherwise, if not.

   • How else (= in what other way) can it be done?
   • I'm busy Friday; when else (= what other time) works for you?

conjunction1

1. •
   For otherwise; or else.

   • Then the Wronskian of f and g must be nonzero, else they could not be linearly independent.

adverb3

1. •
   In or at some other place.
2. •
   To some other place.
3. •
   (figurative) Distracted; in a daydream, (of the mind) unable to interact with events in the here and now

   • Hearing the laughter of his sons, Alf grinned. But he was somewhere else, thinking of the woman moving through the dim house behind him. — 2013

noun1

1. •
   A place other than here; another place.

noun3

1. •
   Another unspecified item, perhaps not yet known or decided upon.

   • It's a bracket for a camera at the moment, but it could be turned into a bracket for something else. — 2022
2. •
   (informal) Something exceptional, out of the ordinary, unusual.

   • My mother's cooking is something else!
3. •
   (informal) A person or thing that is outstandingly unfavorable.

   • You mean to tell me you let those kids walk all the way home? At night in the rain? Man, you're really something else.

pronoun1

1. •
   Some other person.

   • I grabbed somebody else's coat.