Definitions for separation

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separation sep·a·ra·tion

Spelling: [sep-uh-rey-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌsɛp əˈreɪ ʃən/

Separation is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 1359 anagrams from letters in separation (aaeinoprst).

Definitions for separation

noun

1. an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.
2. a place, line, or point of parting.
3. a gap, hole, rent, or the like.
4. something that separates or divides.
5. Law. cessation of conjugal cohabitation, as by mutual consent. judicial separation.
6. Aerospace. the time or act of releasing a burned-out stage of a rocket or missile from the remainder.
7. Photography. separation negative.

Origin of separation

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin sēparātiōn- (stem of sēparātiō), equivalent to sēparāt(us) separate + -iōn- -ion

Examples for separation

In this manner are old shipmates often thrown together, after years of separation.

But the British government objected to the separation and their union with Greece.

The hero first enters a period known as separation, where he leaves his past and enters a new life of adventure.

But does John accept Brenda the wife and Brenda the professional after two full years of separation?

This I did; and we met, again, after a separation of five-and-twenty years.

It was no separation—so long as like speech it was between them.

Enter Americans United for separation of Church and State, which threatened to sue.

Thanks again to the Founding Fathers for the separation of powers!

There was none of the illusion of separation; he was always there, like Katie.

But the second thing is the way this city has changed in recent years, the intensification of the separation.