Without

Adverb

 * 1)  outside, externally
 * 1904: I knew that someone had entered the house cautiously from without. — Arthur Conan Doyle, ‘The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez’ (Norton 2005, p.1100)
 * c.1600s: Macbeth: There's blood upon your face
 * Murderer: 'tis Banquo's then
 * Macbeth: 'tis better thee without then he within. - Shakspeare's Macbeth
 * 1) Lacking something.
 * Being from a large, poor family, he learned to live without.

Preposition

 * 1)  Outside of, beyond
 * The snow was swirling without the cottage, but it was warm within.
 * Life goes on within you and without you. - George Harrison - Sgt Pepper
 * 1) Not having, containing, characteristic of, etc..
 * It was a mistake to leave my house without a coat.
 * Life goes on within you and without you. - George Harrison - Sgt Pepper

Derived terms

 * withoutness

Synonyms

 * lacking, outwith, with no, -less, w/o, sans

Antonyms

 * within
 * with, having, characteristic of, endowed with

Conjunction

 * 1) Unless.
 * 2) *1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XV:
 * thou shalt be confounded withoute thou yelde me my tresoure.
 * 1) *1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin 2006, p. 264:
 * ‘Why,’ he blurted, ‘because they say I've no right to come up like this – without we mean to marry—’

Thesaurus
after, apparently, aside from, bar, barring, beside, besides, but, discounting, empty of, ex, except, except for, excepting, exception taken of, excluding, exclusive of, exteriorly, externally, free of, from, lacking, leaving out, less, let alone, minus, not counting, off, omitting, on the outside, on the surface, open, open air, openly, out, out of doors, out-of-doors, outside, outside of, outwardly, outwards, past, precluding, publically, sans, save, save and except, saving, superficially, than, to all appearances, unless, void of, wanting

Etymology
From Late wiþutan:.

Preposition

 * Albanian:
 * Ancient Greek:
 * Anglo-Norman:
 * Arabic: (bidú:n),
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: gabe, barik
 * Breton: hep
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: sense
 * Chinese: 沒有, 没有 (méiyǒu), 無, 无 (wú)
 * Croatian: bez
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: ilma + -ta (abessive case)
 * Finnish: ilman, -tta/-ttä (abessive case), vailla
 * French:, ,
 * Old French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hawaiian: nele, ʻole
 * Hebrew: בלי (bli)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Interlingua: sin
 * Interlingua: sin


 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ...なしで (...nashide), ...無し (...なし, ...nashi)
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ...없이 (...eopsi)
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin:, absque
 * Lithuanian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: ,
 * Pitjantjatjara: wiya
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: без (bez)
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: без
 * Roman: bez
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: không có
 * Volapük: nen
 * Welsh:

Anagrams

 * outwith