separation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
law
military
politics
war
Etymology: Attested in the 15th Century C.E.; from Middle English separacioun, from Old French separacion, from Latin separatio, separationem. Morphologically separate + -ion.
Base: separate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: separations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act or condition of two or more people being separated from one another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We were a band of brothers, and never dearer to each other than now. The thought which gave us the most pain, was the probable separation which would now take place, in case we were sold off to the far south, as we were likely to be.
[…] my longing for her was undiminished despite our months of near-complete separation.
gloss: The act or condition of a married couple living in separate homes while remaining legally married.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ‘If he dares to refuse me a separation, I’ll have one in law—I can—and I hope this will be a warning to all girls who have seen this disgraceful exhibition.’
[…] she [knows] her great-aunt’s concern over her son Warren, his two divorces, and now Alice’s bitter separation from her husband, Ben.
gloss: The act or condition of a married couple living in separate homes while remaining legally married.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I should have gone back to her the day after the fair, if it hadn't been for you talking about the law, and rubbish about getting a separation;
“You are deserting me?”
“Don’t be the neglected, dramatic wife, Scarlett. The rôle isn’t becoming. I take it, then, you do not want a divorce or even a separation? Well, then, I’ll come back often enough to keep gossip down.”
gloss: The place at which a division occurs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I was now on the separation of two vast water-sheds; behind me all the streams were bound for the Garonne and the Western Ocean; before me was the basin of the Rhone.
gloss: An interval, gap or space that separates things or people.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] gentle friend, for love and courtesy
Lie further off; in human modesty,
Such separation as may well be said
Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a maid,
So far be distant;
gloss: An object that separates two spaces.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [The orchard] was full of trees, it bloomed with flowers: a very high wall shut it out from the court, on one side; on the other, a beech avenue screened it from the lawn. At the bottom was a sunk fence; its sole separation from lonely fields:
gloss: Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: detachment
departition
disassociation
disconnection
discontinuity
disengagement
disjunction
disseverance
dissociation
disunion
disunity
division
inconnection
parting
rupture
separation
severance
split
sunderance
Antonyms: junction
Related words: division
fission
interspace
Derived words: antiseparation
bioseparation
color separation
cyclonic separation
diastereoseparation
electroseparation
enantioseparation
immunomagnetic separation
immunoseparation
judicial separation
legal separation
marital separation
membrane separation
microseparation
nanoseparation
nonseparation
phase separation
postseparation
preseparation
reseparation
separational
separation allowance
separation anxiety
separation anxiety disorder
separation constant
separation energy
separation from bed and board
separationism
separationist
separation of concerns
separation of duties
separation of powers
separation pay
static separation of duty
trial separation
unseparation
vertex separation number
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