departure

Meaning

1. The act of departing or something that has departed.
2. A deviation from a plan or procedure.
3. A death.
4. The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the product of the distance sailed and the sine of the angle made by the course with the meridian.
5. The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve.
6. The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another
7. (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.

Synonyms

leaving

going away

going

deviation

exit

sailing

leave

parting

separation

withdrawal

passing

start

decease

retreat

divergence

going out

release

disappearance

expiration

takeoff

setting out

starting

farewell

take off

escape

deflection

beginning

leave-taking

going forth

deviate

loss

exodus

difference

digression

flight

✈️

removal

coming out

dismissal

issue

leave behind

leavening

leeway

moving

off

offset

outgo

outgoing

perdition

procession

reassignment

return

ruin

sail

set-off

squint

swept

take-off

tangent

hop off

unsoundness

unstick

wreck

atypicality

decination

unregularity

bereavement

death

💀

migration

walking

🚶

loss of life

dep

act of going

dep.

the act of dying

the end of life

departure from life

parting of lovers

unsimilarity

aberrance or aberration

shift excursion

off-lying

transverse space

off-deck

takeoff operation

lift-off, launching

goodbye

👋

aberrance

aberration

abnormality

advance

anomalousness

cessation

clearance

demise

departing

destruction

detour

deviance

discharge

dispersion

displacement

diverge

divergent

doom

downfall

drift

dying

egress

emigration

end

🔚

estrangement

etc.

evacuation

excursion

export

expulsion

fall

freakishness

getting up

go

gone

irregularity

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)tjə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Old French deporteure (“departure; figuratively, death”).