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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DEPARTURE, n.
1. The act of going away; a moving from or leaving a place; as a departure from London.
2. Death; decease; removal from the present life.
The time of my departure is at hand. 2 Timothy 4.
3. A forsaking; abandonment; as a departure from evil.
4. A desisting; as a departure from a purpose.
5. Ruin; destruction. Ezek 26.
6. A deviation from the title or defense in pleading.
7. In navigation, the distance of two places on the same parallel, counted in miles of the equator.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the act of departing [syn: departure, going, going away, leaving]
2: a variation that deviates from the standard or norm; "the deviation from the mean" [syn: deviation, divergence, departure, difference]
3: euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing" [syn: passing, loss, departure, exit, expiration, going, release]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century 1. a. (1) the act or an instance of departing (2) archaic death b. a setting out (as on a new course) 2. divergence 2 <a departure from tradition>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the act or an instance of departing. 2 (often foll. by from) a deviation (from the truth, a standard, etc.). 3 (often attrib.) the starting of a train, an aircraft, etc. (the departure was late; departure lounge). 4 a new course of action or thought (driving a car is rather a departure for him). 5 Naut. the amount of a ship's change of longitude. Etymology: OF departeüre (as DEPART)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Departure De*par"ture (?; 135), n. [From Depart.] 1. Division; separation; putting away. [Obs.] No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. --Milton. 2. Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away. Departure from this happy place. --Milton. 3. Removal from the present life; death; decease. The time of my departure is at hand. --2 Tim. iv. 6. His timely departure . . . barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries. --Sir P. Sidney. 4. Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose. Any departure from a national standard. --Prescott. 5. (Law) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. --Bouvier. 6. (Nav. & Surv.) The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line. Note: Since the meridians sensibly converge, the departure in navigation is not measured from the beginning nor from the end of the ship's course, but is regarded as the total easting or westing made by the ship or person as he travels over the course. To take a departure (Nav. & Surv.), to ascertain, usually by taking bearings from a landmark, the position of a vessel at the beginning of a voyage as a point from which to begin her dead reckoning; as, the ship took her departure from Sandy Hook. Syn: Death; demise; release. See Death.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(departures) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Departure or a departure is the act of going away from somewhere. ...the President's departure for Helsinki... They hoped this would lead to the departure of all foreign forces from the country... The airline has more than 90 scheduled departures from here every day. ? arrival N-VAR: oft with poss 2. The departure of a person from a job, or a member from an organization, is their act of leaving it or being forced to leave it. (FORMAL) This would inevitably involve his departure from the post of Prime Minister... N-VAR: with poss, oft N from n 3. If someone does something different or unusual, you can refer to their action as a departure. Taylor announced another departure from practice in that England will train at Wembley... = deviation N-COUNT: oft N from n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Withdrawal, exit, recession, retirement, removal. 2. Abandonment (of), forsaking (of). 3. Deviation, variation, declension, declining, declination. 4. Death, decease, demise, exit.

Moby Thesaurus

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