"other than" meaning in English

See other than in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Preposition

Audio: En-au-other than.ogg [Australia], en-us-other than.ogg [Mid-Atlantic]
Head templates: {{head|en|prepositions|head=}} other than, {{en-prep}} other than
  1. (idiomatic) Except, besides. Tags: idiomatic Translations (except; besides): غَيْر (ḡayr) (Arabic), إلا (ʔelaa) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), başqa (Azerbaijani), savayı (Azerbaijani), özgə (Azerbaijani), башҡа (başqa) (Bashkir), бүтән (bütən) (Bashkir), тыш (tış) (Bashkir), 除了...以外 (chúle...yǐwài) (Chinese Mandarin), jinak (Czech), krom (Esperanto), lukuun ottamatta (Finnish), paitsi (Finnish), autre que (French), abgesehen von (German), außer (German), ausgenommen (German), csak (Hungarian), kívül (Hungarian), kivételével (Hungarian), seachas (Irish), diomaite de (Irish), 他は (hoka wa) (alt: ほかは) (Japanese), 別は (betsu wa) (alt: べつは) (Japanese), savādāk (Latvian), citādāk (Latvian), poza (Polish), oprócz (Polish), fora (Portuguese), кро́ме (króme) [with-genitive] (Russian), además (Spanish), aparte (Spanish), fuera (Spanish), haricinde (Turkish), ngoài (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-other_than-en-prep-i~hGiFcu Disambiguation of 'except; besides': 98 2
  2. (idiomatic) Otherwise than; in any other way than, for any other reason than, etc. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: apart from, barring, except for, not including, except Translations (otherwise than): anders als (German), in anderer Weise als (German)
    Sense id: en-other_than-en-prep-9qPB6~gj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English prepositions Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 88 Disambiguation of English prepositions: 40 60 Disambiguation of 'otherwise than': 8 92

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