Question 1 · Quick check
without
CEFRA1
/wɪðˈaʊt/
preposition · adverb
Türkçe translations
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In plain English
- 01
preposition
Not having or using someone or something.
- 02
preposition
Extra detailLacking something; failing.
Examples
They had gone two days without food.
I can't live without a TV.
At a glance
Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 2
- Citations
- 5
- Synonyms
- 5
Also pronounced
- [-əu̯t]
- [-ʌʊ̯t]
Deep Dive
preposition
Extra meaningsWithout a condom being worn.
Not having, containing, characteristic of, etc.
adverb
Extra meaningOutside, externally.
More examples
In contextI learned to live without her.
Being from a large, poor family, he learned to live without.
Brainiac: This earthquake is quite literally worldwide. Alex Danvers: But the seismic activity [isn't] coming from within the planet, it's coming from without.
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Origin
preposition
From Middle English withoute, withouten, from Old English wiþūtan (literally “against the outside of”). Compare Dutch buiten (“outside of, without”), Danish uden (“without”), Swedish utan (“without”), Norwegian uten (“without”). By surface analysis, with- + out. Superseded non-native Middle English sauns, sans (“without”), from Old French sans, sanz, senz (“without”). Compare typologically Proto-Slavic *bez (“without”) (<+ Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs (“out”)).