Prepositional locution with the preferred meaning of in addition to , in addition to , also . It is in this sense that Cervantes uses it most of the time. But in some he gives it the meaning of except, with the exception of , outside of, as when the innkeeper says this to Don Quixote: "If your worship, sir knight, seeks an inn, as well as a bed, for there is none in this inn, everything else will be found in it in great abundance."
