but

ISO 639-3 language code for Bungain.

Apart from, except (for), excluding.

• Everyone but Father left early.
• I like everything but that.
• Nobody answered the door when I knocked, so I had no choice but to leave.

Outside of.

• Away but the hoose and tell me whae's there.

Merely, only, just, no more than.

• Christmas comes but once a year, so we can but wait till then.

Though, however.

• I'll have to go home early but.

Used to repeat an adverb for emphasis; simply; just; absolutely.

• I would never, but never do such a thing!

However, although, nevertheless, on the other hand .

• She is very old but still attractive.
• She’s welcomed them but been rude to us.
• You told me I could do that, but she said that I could not.

On the contrary, rather .

• I am not rich but [I am] poor.  Not John but Peter went there.
• It’s not so much that we don’t wanna go, but I just haven’t time.

Used at the beginning of a sentence to express opposition to a remark.

• But I never said you could do that!

Except that (introducing a subordinate clause which qualifies a negative statement); also, with omission of the subject of the subordinate clause, acting as a negative relative, "except one that", "except such that".

• I cannot but feel offended.
• My kid does nothing but watch TV all day.

Used to link an interjection to the following remark as an intensifier.

• Wow! But that's amazing!

Without it also being the case that; unless that (introducing a necessary concomitant).

• It never rains but it pours
• I never hear this song but I think of you.

Except with; unless with; without.

Only; solely; merely.

Until.

That.

An instance of using the word "but"; an objection or caveat.

• It has to be done—no ifs, ands, or buts.
• But—and this is a big but—you have to come home by sundown.

The outer room of a small two-room cottage.

A limit; a boundary.

The end; especially the larger or thicker end, or the blunt, in distinction from the sharp, end; the butt.

Use the word "but".

• But me no buts.