departure

departure is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Division; separation; putting away. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Division; separation; putting away.
2. noun. Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.
3. noun. Removal from the present life; death; decease.
4. noun. Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose.
5. noun. The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.
6. noun. The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.
7. noun. the act of departing

   Synonyms: going, leaving

8. noun. euphemistic expressions for death

   "thousands mourned his passing"

   Synonyms: exit, expiration, going, loss, passing, release

9. noun. a variation that deviates from the standard or norm

   "the deviation from the mean"

   Synonyms: deviation, difference, divergence

Synonyms

going, leaving, exit, expiration, loss, passing, release, deviation, difference, divergence

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in departure:

apertured

Common word forms

departures

Words from these letters

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