departure

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of departing or something that has departed.
2. (countable, uncountable) A deviation from a plan or procedure.
3. (countable, euphemistic, uncountable) A death.
4. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve.
6. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Division; separation; putting away.

Synonyms

leaving

going away

going

deviation

exit

sailing

leave

parting

separation

start

withdrawal

passing

decease

divergence

retreat

going out

starting

disappearance

expiration

setting out

takeoff

release

deflection

going forth

flight

✈️

dismissal

coming out

exodus

digression

difference

escape

loss

farewell

leave-taking

beginning

removal

take off

deviate

doom

divergent

departing

diverge

demise

anomalousness

displacement

dispersion

freakishness

fall

discharge

advance

Translations

départ

partenza

Abfahrt

partida

Abreise

vertrek

salida

αναχώρηση

partida

Abflug

Abgang

dipartita

💀

sortie

Start

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)tjə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Old French deporteure (“departure; figuratively, death”). By surface analysis, depart + -ure.

Sentences

This was the morning of the day appointed for Richard's departure .