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elopment

elopment is the rare form of elopement.

Meaning of elopement

Noun

elopement (countable and uncountable, plural elopements)

  1. The act of running away from home with a paramour.
    • You may not have heard of the last blow—Julia's elopement; she is gone to Scotland with Yates.1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter LXVI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 287
  2. The act of running away secretly for the purpose of getting married.
  3. The act of running away from home (for any reason).
  4. (mental health) The act of a person with dementia or other mental illness wandering away from the area where they are safe.

Forms of elopment

pluralelopments

Questions about elopment

What is elopment the rare form of?
Elopment is the rare form of elopement.

Words near elopment in the dictionary

  1. elopiform
  2. elopiforms
  3. eloping
  4. elopings
  5. elopiprazole
  6. elopment
  7. elopments
  8. elopocephalan
  9. elopocephalans
  10. elopoid
  11. elopoids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: elopment (page history and authors); elopement (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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