Departure

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)tjÉ™(ɹ)/, /dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)tʃə(ɹ)/

Origin

From Old French deporteure ("departure," figuratively, "death")

Full definition of departure

Noun

1. The act of departing or something that has departed.
   The departure was scheduled for noon.
• 1922, Ben Travers, A Cuckoo in the Nest Chapter 5, The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running: “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”
• 2011, April 10, Alistair Magowan, Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle, Villa spent most of the second period probing from wide areas and had a succession of corners but despite their profligacy they will be glad to overturn the 6-0 hammering they suffered at St James' Park in August following former boss Martin O'Neill's departure.
2. A deviation from a plan or procedure.
• Prescottany departure from a national standard
3. (euphemism) A death.
• Bible, 2 Tim. iv. 6The time of my departure is at hand.
• Sir Philip SidneyHis timely departure ... barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries.
4. (navigation) 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. (legal) 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. (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.
• Miltonno other remedy ... but absolute departure

Synonyms

• leaving

Antonyms

• arrival

Related terms

• depart
• departure lounge
• departure tax

Anagrams

• apertured