{
    "term": "else",
    "partOfSpeech": "adverb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "in addition to something already mentioned",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "What else did he say?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don't want anything else, thanks."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm taking a few clothes and some books, not much else."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "different",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Ask somebody else to help you."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Haven't you got anything else to wear?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Why didn't you come? Everybody else was there."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Yes I did give it to her. What else could I do?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "if not",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Keep your mouth shut, else we'll be in trouble."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "if not",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Hurry up or else you'll be late."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They can't be coming or else they'd have called."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "otherwise"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "used to introduce the second of two possibilities",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He either forgot or else decided not to come."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "used to threaten or warn somebody",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Just shut up, or else!"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/els/",
                "audio": "el/else/else__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/els/",
                "audio": "el/else/else__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English elles, of Germanic origin; related to Middle Dutch els and Swedish eljest."
}