ex

ex ¹  (ks)

prep.

1. Not including; without: a stock price ex dividend.

2. Abbr. x. Business Free of any transport or handling charges incurred before removal from a given location: bought the goods ex warehouse.

3. From, but not having graduated with, the class of: a Columbia alumnus, ex '70.

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[Latin; see eghs in Indo-European roots.]

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ex ²  (ks)

n.

The letter x.

tr.v. exed, ex·ing, ex·es

To delete or cross out: He exed each item off the to-do list.

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ex ³  (ks)

n. Slang

A former spouse or partner.

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[From ex-.]

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ex ¹

prep

Finance excluding or without: ex dividend [Latin: out of, from]

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ex ²

Noun

pl exes Informal one's former wife or husband

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	ex - a man who was formerly a certain woman's husband ex-husband adult male, man - an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"
	2.	ex - a woman who was formerly a particular man's wife; "all his exes live in Texas" ex-wife adult female, woman - an adult female person (as opposed to a man); "the woman kept house while the man hunted"
	3.	ex - the 24th letter of the Roman alphabet x Latin alphabet, Roman alphabet - the alphabet evolved by the ancient Romans which serves for writing most of the languages of western Europe alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet, letter - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters"
Adj.	1.	ex - out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas" demode, old-fashioned, outmoded, passe, passee, old-hat, antique unfashionable, unstylish - not in accord with or not following current fashion; "unfashionable clothes"; "melodrama of a now unfashionable kind"

Translations

ex [eks] n (inf);

my ex → mon ex