with the absence, omission, or avoidance of; not with; with no or none of; lacking:without help; without her helping me;without him to help.
free from; excluding:a world without hunger.
not accompanied by:Don't go without me.
at, on, or to the outside of; outside of:both within and without the house or the city.
beyond the compass, limits, range, or scope of (now used chiefly in opposition to within):whether within or without the law.
adv.
in or into an exterior or outer place; outside.
outside a house, building, etc.:The carriage awaits without.
lacking something implied or understood:We must take this or go without.
as regards the outside; externally.
n.
the outside of a place, region, area, room, etc.
conj.
Dialect Terms[Midland and Southern U.S.]unless.
Middle English withouten, Old English withūtan (adverb, adverbial and preposition), equivalent. to withwith + -ūtan from without, equivalent. to ūtout + -an suffix of motion from bef. 900