English Explanatory Dictionary

exception

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
  2. That which is excluded from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included.
  3. An objection, on legal grounds; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts or reserves something before the right is transferred.
  4. An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense.
  5. An interruption in normal processing, typically caused by an error condition, that can be raised ("thrown") by one part of the program and handled ("caught") by another part.
verb
  1. To throw an exception.

Pronunciation

/əkˈsɛpʃən/ /ɪkˈsɛpʃən/ En-us-exception.ogg

Word forms

exception exceptions exceptioning exceptioned

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti Proto-Italic *kapjō Old Latin kapiō Latin capiō Latin excipiō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin exceptiōder. Old French excepcion Anglo-Norman excepciounbor. Middle English exception English exception From Middle English exception, excepcioun, from Anglo-Norman excepcioun, from Old French excepcion, from Latin exceptiō. Equivalent to except + -ion.

Synonyms

outlier

Antonyms

commonness generality

Related words

except exceptional exception handling

Derived words

be no exception every rule has an exception exceptionable exceptioner exception handler exceptionless exception that proves the rule exceptious first-chance exception make an exception management by exception personal exception state of exception take exception there is an exception to every rule without exception with the exception of

Translations

Albanian: përjashtim Arabic: اِسْتِثْنَاء Armenian: բացառություն Asturian: esceición Azerbaijani: istisna Belarusian: вы́нятак Bulgarian: изключе́ние Bulgarian: отво́д Catalan: excepció Chinese Mandarin: 例外 Czech: výjimka Danish: undtagelse Dutch: uitzondering Esperanto: escepto Estonian: erand Finnish: poikkeus Finnish: ehto French: exception Galician: excepción Georgian: გამონაკლისი German: Ausnahme Greek: εξαίρεση Hebrew: יוֹצֵא דֹּפֶן Hebrew: יוצא דופן Hebrew: חָרִיג Hindi: अपवाद Hungarian: kivétel Hungarian: kifogás Hungarian: ellenvetés Icelandic: undantekning Indonesian: pengecualian Ingrian: iskljucenija Irish: eisceacht Italian: eccezione Japanese: 例外 Japanese: 殊 Kazakh: ерекшелік Korean: 예외 Korean: 례외 Kyrgyz: бөтөнчө Kyrgyz: өзгөчө Latin: exceptiō Latin: exceptio Latvian: izņēmums Lithuanian: išimtis Macedonian: исклучок Malay: pengecualian Māori: hāungatanga Māori: rerenga Norwegian Bokmål: unntak Norwegian Bokmål: aberrasjon Pashto: استثنا
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