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departed

Syllables: de·part·edUK/dɪˈpɑːtɪd//dɪˈpɑɹtɪd/

departed is the simple past and past participle of depart.

Adjective

departed (not comparable)

  1. Having gone away.
    • relics from a departed era
  2. (euphemistic) Dead.

Meaning of depart

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...
    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
  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...
    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
  5. (intransitive) To deviate (from), be different (from), fail to conform.
    • His latest statements seemed to depart from party policy somewhat.
  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
    Synonyms:
    leave

See all 11 meanings of depart

Noun

departed (plural departeds)

  1. (euphemistic) Synonym of dead (“those who have died”).
    • ... and our Theologians, in stead thereof vie to make sermons, both teaching the people some good learning, and also saying well of the departed.1589, George Puttenham, edited by Edward Arber, The Arte of English Poesie, published 1869, page 63
    Synonyms:
    dead

Synonyms of departed

Forms of departed

pluraldeparteds

Words formed from departed

Phrases with departed

Questions about departed

What does departed mean?
Departed means having gone away.
What is departed the simple past and past participle of?
Departed is the simple past and past participle of depart.
What part of speech is departed?
Departed can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce departed?
Departed is pronounced /dɪˈpɑɹtɪd/ (US).

Words near departed in the dictionary

  1. deparochializing
  2. depart
  3. depart with
  4. departable
  5. departance
  6. departed
  7. departed with
  8. departedness
  9. departeds
  10. departedst
  11. departee

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