exception
/əkˈsɛpʃən/
exception noun: the act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
Noun
exception (countable and uncountable, plural exceptions)
- The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
- the exception of a rule
- That which is excluded from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included.
- That rule is usually true, but there are a few exceptions.
- The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution had abolished slavery but allowed one major exception: slavery remained appropriate as punishment for a crime.2012, Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, →ISBN, page 31
- Synonyms:
- outlier
- Antonyms:
- commonness, generality
- An objection, on legal grounds; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts or reserves something before the right is transferred.
- An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense.
- 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.
- null pointer exception
Verb
exception (third-person singular simple present exceptions, present participle exceptioning, simple past and past participle exceptioned)
- To throw an exception.
exception meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
exception in Hindi
- that which is excepted or taken out from others
- अपवाद apvād
- act of excepting or excluding; exclusion
- अपवाद apvād
exception in Tamil
- விதிவிலக்கு, விலக்கு
exception in Urdu
- that which is excepted or taken out from others
- اِسْتِثْنا istisnā, اِسْتِثْنیٰ istisnā
exception in Bengali
- ব্যতিক্রম, বাদ, আপত্তি, ব্যত্যয়, বর্জিত পদার্থ, বর্জন
More languagesFewer languages
- exception in Malayalam
- ഒഴിവാക്കൽ, വിലക്കൽ, വ്യത്യസ്തത
- exception in Kannada
- ನಿಷೇಧ niṣēdha
- exception in Sanskrit
- विपक्ष vipakṣa, उद्धार uddhāra
- exception in Pashto
- استثنا estesnã
- exception in Arabic
- اِسْتِثْنَاء istiṯnāʔ, خَطَأ ḵaṭaʔ
- exception in Malay
- pengecualian
- exception in Indonesian
- pengecualian
- exception in Thai
- ข้อยกเว้น kɔ̂ɔ-yók-wén, การยกเว้น
- exception in Vietnamese
- lệ ngoại, ngoại lệ
Examples of exception in a sentence
- Congress neutered the bill by adding an exception for big corporations.
- When the program catches an exception, this is recorded in the log file.
- If the file is read-only, the method throws an invalid-operation exception.
Synonyms of exception
Antonyms
Forms of exception
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | exceptions |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | exceptions |
| present participle | exceptioning |
| past participle | exceptioned |
| past | exceptioned |
Origin of exception
From Middle English exception, excepcioun, from Anglo-Norman excepcioun, from Old French excepcion, from Latin exceptiō. Equivalent to except + -ion.
Words formed from exception
- 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
Phrases with exception
Questions about exception
- What does exception mean?
- Exception means the act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
- What is exception in Hindi?
- Exception in Hindi is अपवाद (apvād). See Exception meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is exception?
- Exception can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce exception?
- Exception is pronounced /əkˈsɛpʃən/.
- What is the plural of exception?
- The plural of exception is exceptions.
Words near exception in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: exception (page history and authors); exception (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exception (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); exception (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ನಿಷೇಧ (Kannada) (page history and authors); उद्धार (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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