1.verbTo exclude; to specify as being an exception.
2.verbTo take exception, to object (to or against).
"to except to a witness or his testimony"
3.prepositionWith the exception of; but.
"There was nothing in the cupboard except a tin of beans."
4.conjunctionWith the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated.
"I never made fun of her except teasingly."
5.conjunctionUnless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.