department
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English departement (“ceasing, end”), from Middle French département. Later senses borrowed from Modern French département. Doublet of département.
Inflected forms:
form: departments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A part, portion, or subdivision.
pos: noun
gloss: A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
pos: noun
examples: Technical things are not his department; he's a people person.
Flair and invention were very much at a premium, suffocated by the relentless pace and often fractious nature of proceedings. The absence of James Morrison from the centre of Scotland’s midfield, the West Brom man ruled out on the morning of the game by illness, had already diminished the creative capacity of the home side in that department.
superior to Pope in Pope's own peculiar department of literature
gloss: A specified aspect or quality.
pos: noun
examples: The 2012 Boston Marathon was outstanding in the temperature department; runners endured temperatures of no less than 88 degrees Fahrenheit.
While the Chiefs superstar trails legendary quarterback Tom Brady in the Super Bowl wins department – the former Patriot and Tampa Bay Buccaneer has seven to Mahomes’ three – the chatter will only get louder and louder as to whether or not the 2023 Super Bowl MVP is the greatest of all time or not as he continues his career.
gloss: A subdivision of an organization.
pos: noun
examples: the Treasury Department; the Department of Agriculture; police department
gloss: A subdivision of an organization.
pos: noun
examples: the physics department; the history department; the math department
gloss: A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts into which the country is divided for governmental purposes, similar to a county in the UK and in the USA. France is composed of 101 départements organized in 18 régions, each department is divided into arrondissements, in turn divided into cantons.
pos: noun
examples: The departments were the bricks from which the edifice of the nation was to be constructed.
gloss: A military subdivision of a country
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: the Department of the Potomac
gloss: Act of departing; departure.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: For though Contraria iuxta ſe poſita magis illuceſcunt [opposites placed next to each other shine more brightly] (by an olde Rule) yet it hath beene ſubtilly, and indeede truely noted that our Sight, is not vvell contented, vvith thoſe ſudden departments, from one extreame to another; Therefore let them haue, rather a Duskiſh Tincture, then an abſolute blacke.
Related words: province
state
Derived words: cabinet department
casualty department
departmental
departmentally
departmentation
departmentize
Department of Redundancy Department
department store
departmentwide
emergency department
fire department
interdepartmental
multidepartment
police department
state department
subdepartment
superdepartment
treasury department
trouser department
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: departement
lang: Afrikaans
word: afdeling
lang: Albanian
word: departament
lang: Arabic
word: قِسْم
roman: qism
lang: Armenian
word: բաժին
roman: bažin
lang: Armenian
word: ֆակուլտետ
roman: fakultet
lang: Azerbaijani
word: şöbə
lang: Bashkir
word: бүлек
roman: bülek
lang: Belarusian
word: аддзе́л
roman: addzjél
lang: Belarusian
word: дэпарта́мент
roman: departámjent
lang: Bengali
word: বিভাগ
roman: bibhag
lang: Bulgarian
word: отде́л
roman: otdél
lang: Bulgarian
word: отделе́ние
roman: otdelénie
lang: Burmese
word: ဌာန
roman: htana.
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 部門 /部门
roman: bou⁶ mun⁴
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 部
roman: bou⁶
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 系
roman: hai⁶
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 部門 /部门
roman: bùmén
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 部
roman: bù
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 系
roman: xì
lang: Czech
word: oddělení
lang: Danish
word: departement
lang: Danish
word: ministerium
lang: Danish
word: institut
lang: Danish
word: fagområde
lang: Dutch
word: afdeling
lang: Dutch
word: departement
lang: Esperanto
word: fako
lang: Estonian
word: osakond
lang: Finnish
word: ministeriö
lang: Finnish
word: osasto
lang: Finnish
word: yksikkö
lang: Finnish
word: laitos
lang: French
word: ministère
lang: Georgian
word: განყოფილება
roman: ganq̇opileba
lang: Georgian
word: დეპარტამენტი
roman: deṗarṭamenṭi
lang: German
word: Abteilung
lang: Greek
word: τμήμα
roman: tmíma
lang: Greek
word: διεύθυνση
roman: diéfthynsi
lang: Greek
word: κλάδος
roman: kládos
lang: Greek
word: υπηρεσία
roman: ypiresía
lang: Haitian Creole
word: depatman
lang: Hebrew
word: מַחְלָקָה
roman: makhlaká
lang: Hindi
word: विभाग
roman: vibhāg
lang: Hindi
word: अनुभाग
roman: anubhāg
lang: Hungarian
word: osztály
lang: Hungarian
word: részleg
lang: Hungarian
word: szakosztály
lang: Hungarian
word: minisztérium
lang: Hungarian
word: tanszék
lang: Indonesian
word: departemen
lang: Italian
word: dipartimento
lang: Italian
word: facoltà
lang: Italian
word: reparto
lang: Japanese
word: 局
roman: kyoku
lang: Japanese
word: 部門
roman: bumon
lang: Japanese
word: 学部
roman: gakubu
lang: Kazakh
word: бөлім
roman: bölım
lang: Khmer
word: ការិយាល័យ
roman: kaariyaalay
lang: Korean
word: 부서
roman: buseo
lang: Korean
word: 학과
roman: hakgwa
lang: Kyrgyz
word: бөлүм
roman: bölüm
lang: Lao
word: ພະແນກ
roman: pha nǣk
lang: Lao
word: ພາກວິຊາ
roman: phāk wi sā
lang: Latvian
word: nodaļa
lang: Latvian
word: daļa
lang: Lithuanian
word: skyrius
lang: Macedonian
word: оддел
roman: oddel
lang: Macedonian
word: одделение
roman: oddelenie
lang: Malayalam
word: വകുപ്പ്
roman: vakuppŭ
lang: Mòcheno
word: omt
lang: Mongolian
word: хэлтэс
roman: xeltes
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: departement
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: institutt
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: departement
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: institutt
lang: Dari
word: بَخْش
roman: baxš
lang: Dari
word: شُعْبَه
roman: šu'ba
lang: Iranian Persian
word: بَخْش
roman: baxš
lang: Iranian Persian
word: شُعْبِه
roman: šo'be
lang: Polish
word: dział
lang: Polish
word: departament
lang: Polish
word: oddział
lang: Polish
word: agenda
lang: Portuguese
word: departamento
lang: Portuguese
word: setor
lang: Romanian
word: departament
lang: Romansh
word: departament
lang: Russian
word: отде́л
roman: otdél
lang: Russian
word: департа́мент
roman: departáment
lang: Russian
word: министе́рство
roman: ministérstvo
lang: Russian
word: факульте́т
roman: fakulʹtét
lang: Russian
word: отделе́ние
roman: otdelénije
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: одеље́ње
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: одјеље́ње
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: odeljénje
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: odjeljénje
lang: Slovak
word: oddelenie
lang: Slovene
word: oddelek
lang: Spanish
word: departamento
lang: Tagalog
word: kagawaran
lang: Tajik
word: шӯъба
roman: šü'ba
lang: Tajik
word: бахш
roman: baxš
lang: Tamil
word: துறை
roman: tuṟai
lang: Tatar
word: бүлек
roman: bülek
lang: Thai
word: แผนก
roman: pà-nɛ̀ɛk
lang: Thai
word: ภาควิชา
roman: pâak-wí-chaa
lang: Turkish
word: bölüm
lang: Turkish
word: şube
lang: Turkish
word: departman
lang: Turkmen
word: bölüm
lang: Ukrainian
word: відді́л
roman: viddíl
lang: Ukrainian
word: департа́мент
roman: departáment
lang: Urdu
word: مَحْکَمَہ
roman: mahkama
lang: Urdu
word: شُعْبَہ
roman: śu'ba
lang: Uyghur
word: تارماق
roman: tarmaq
lang: Uzbek
word: boʻlim
lang: Uzbek
word: shuʼba
lang: Vietnamese
word: ban
lang: Vietnamese
word: phòng
lang: Welsh
word: adran