📖 Definitions of "But"
noun
- 1
An instance or example of using the word "but".
"It has to be done – no ifs or buts."
- 2
The outer room of a small two-room cottage.
- 3
A limit; a boundary.
- 4
The end; especially the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end; the butt.
verb
- 1
Use the word "but".
"But me no buts."
adverb
- 1
Merely, only, just.
"Christmas comes but once a year."
- 2
Though, however.
"I'll have to go home early but."
- 3
Used as an intensifier.
"Nobody, but nobody, crosses me and gets away with it."
preposition
- 1
Apart from, except (for), excluding.
"Everyone but Father left early."
- 2
(obsolete outside Scotland) Outside of.
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