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depart

UK/dɪˈpɑːt//dɪˈpɑɹt/

depart verb: to leave.

Verb

depart (third-person singular simple present departs, present participle departing, simple past and past participle departed)

  1. (intransitive) To leave.
    • […] he that hath no ſtomacke to this feaſt,
      Let him depart, […]1599 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Cronicle History of Henry the Fift, […] (First Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Tho[mas] Millington, and Iohn Busby […], published 1600, →OCLC...
    • The glory is departed from Israel.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 4:21
    Synonyms:
    leave
  2. (intransitive) To set out on a journey.
    • And soo she receyued hym vpon suffysaunt seurte / so alle her hurtes were wel restored of al that she coude complayne / and thenne he departed vnto the Courte of kyne Arthur / and there openly the reed knyghte of the reed laundes putte hym in the mercy of syre Launcelot and syr Gawayne1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xviij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book VII
    • Elizabeth saw her friend depart for Port-Breedy, […]1886 May, Thomas Hardy, chapter V, in The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 73–74
  3. (euphemistic, intransitive) To die.
    • […] his Tongue,
      Sounds euer after as a ſullen Bell
      Remembred, knolling a departing Friend.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    • Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 2:29
    Synonyms:
    die
  4. (figuratively, intransitive) To disappear, vanish; to cease to exist.
    • For youth departs, and pleasure flies,
      And life consumes away,1846, Charlotte Brontë, “The Teacher’s Monologue”, in Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
    • An extraordinary joie de vivre had come over them all as soon as the shaky feeling departed from their legs.1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 15”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC
  5. (intransitive) To deviate (from), be different (from), fail to conform.
    • His latest statements seemed to depart from party policy somewhat.
    • to depart from a title or defence in legal pleading
  6. (transitive) To go away from; to leave.
    • [...] he [...] did pray them only to do no thing against the honor of God, & rather to depart the territories of his empire, then to suffer their consciences to be forced.1589, John Eliot, transl., Aduise giuen by a Catholike gentleman, to the nobilitie & commons of France, London: John Wolfe, page 27
    • Then, departing the palace, he [Thomas Becket] asked the king's immediate permission to leave Northampton; [...]1771, [Oliver] Goldsmith, “Henry II”, in The History of England, from the Earliest Times to the Death of George II. […], volume I, London: […] T[homas] Davies, […]; [T.] Becket and [P. A.] De Hondt...
    Synonyms:
    leave
  7. (ambitransitive) To lose control of an aircraft; to "depart" (sense 5) from controlled flight (with the aircraft as the direct object)
    • The envelope protection system allows the pilot to maneuver at high angles of attack without the risk of departing the airplane
  8. (obsolete, transitive) To divide up; to distribute, share.
    • and so all the worlde seythe that betwyxte three knyghtes is departed clerely knyghthode, that is Sir Launcelot du Lake, Sir Trystrams de Lyones and Sir Lamerok de Galys—thes bere now the renowne.1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book VII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich]...
    • Then fortified hee his trenches, and departed them in foure quarters, wherein he made good store of fires, in such distance one from another, as are woont to be made in a campe.1595, Jacques Hurault, translated by Arthur Golding, Politicke, Moral, and Martial Discourses, London: Adam Islip, Book 3, Chapter 17, p. 458
  9. (obsolete, transitive) To separate, part.
    • Syr knyght[,] said the two squyers that were with her[,] yonder are two knyghtes that fyghte for thys lady, goo thyder and departe them[…].1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book IV, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich]...
    • I .N. take thee .N. to my wedded wife, to haue ⁊ to holde from this day forwarde, for better, for wurſe, for richer, for poorer, in ſickenes, and in health, to loue, and to cheriſhe, til death vs departe: according to Goddes holy ordeinaunce: And therto I plight thee my trouth.1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “The Forme of Solemnizacion of Matrimonie”, in The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: […] Edowardi...

Noun

depart

  1. (obsolete) Division; separation, as of compound substances.
  2. (obsolete) A going away; departure.
    • at my depart for France1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    • Of that short Roll of friends writ in my heart
      Which with thy name begins, since their depart,
      Whether in the English Provinces they be,
      Or drinke of Po, Sequan, or Danubie,1633, John Donne, “To M. I. L.”, in Poems, London: John Marriot, page 101

depart meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

depart in Hindi

to leave
जाना jānā, रवाना ravānā

depart in Tamil

to leave
கிளம்பு kiḷampu, செல் cel, புறப்படு puṟappaṭu

depart in Urdu

to leave
روانہ ہونا ravānā honā

depart in Bengali

প্রস্থান করা, যাত্রা করা
More languagesFewer languages
depart in Telugu
తొలగు tolagu, తొలుగు tolugu, లేచిపోవు lēcipōvu
depart in Malayalam
പുറപ്പെടുക puṟappeṭuka, വിടുക viṭuka
depart in Kannada
ಪ್ರಯಾಣ ಮಾಡು, ಹೊರಟುಹೋಗು, ನಿರ್ಗಮಿಸು, ತೊಲೆ
depart in Gujarati
નીકળવું nīkaḷvũ, نکلوو nikalvũ
depart in Nepali
जानु jānu
depart in Tagalog
umalís
depart in Arabic
غَادَرَ ḡādara, رَحَلَ raḥala
depart in Malay
bertolak, berangkat
depart in Indonesian
berangkat
depart in Thai
จาก jàak
depart in Vietnamese
ra đi, đi, rời khỏi
depart in Myanmar
ထွက် htwak

Examples of depart in a sentence

  • With very little excuse for departing so abruptly, Ralph left him, […]1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, “Ralph Nickleby, baffled by his Nephew in his late Design, hatches a scheme of Retaliation...
  • Picking up her underclothing she departed, obviously to dress somewhere else.1964, Philip K. Dick, “NINE”, in Clans of the Alphane Moon, United States: Ace Books, →OCLC; republished London: HarperCollinsPublishers...
  • It's true that they have been threatening to depart in droves, but the obvious answer is: "Sod off then."2009 September 7, George Monbiot, The Guardian:
  • Distant acclamations, words of command yelled out, and a roll of drums on the jetty greeted the departing general.1904 January 29 – October 7, Joseph Conrad, chapter IV, in Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, London; New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers […]...

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Synonyms of depart

Antonyms

All synonyms and antonyms of depart

Forms of depart

third-person singular presentdeparts
present participledeparting
past participledeparted
pastdeparted
second-person singular present (archaic)departest
second-person singular past (archaic)departedst
third-person singular present (archaic)departeth

Past tense of depart: departed

Origin of depart

From Old French departir, from Late Latin departiō (“to divide”), from dē- (“away from”) + partiō (“part, divide”).

Words formed from depart

Words that rhyme with depart

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Questions about depart

What does depart mean?
Depart means to leave.
What is depart in Hindi?
Depart in Hindi is जाना (jānā), रवाना (ravānā). See Depart meaning in Hindi.
How do you use depart in a sentence?
With very little excuse for departing so abruptly, Ralph left him, […]
What part of speech is depart?
Depart can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce depart?
Depart is pronounced /dɪˈpɑːt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of depart?
The past tense of depart is departed.

Words near depart in the dictionary

  1. deparochialising
  2. deparochialize
  3. deparochialized
  4. deparochializes
  5. deparochializing
  6. depart
  7. depart with
  8. departable
  9. departance
  10. departed
  11. departed with

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: depart (page history and authors); depart (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); తొలగు (Telugu) (page history and authors); പുറപ്പെടുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); depart (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); نکلوو (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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