secession
/səˈsɛʃən/
secession noun: the act of seceding.
Noun
secession (countable and uncountable, plural secessions)
- The act of seceding.
- That year, secession was enacted on account of unreasonable policies.
- Synonyms:
- armed secession, secession war, war of secession
secession meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
secession in Hindi
- The act of seceding
- अपगमन apagman
secession in Tamil
- பிரிந்து போதல், பிரிவு, விலகல்
secession in Urdu
- علیحدگی, افتراق
secession in Bengali
- দলত্যাগ, রাষ্ট্রসংঘ থেকে বিচ্ছিন্ন হওয়া
More languagesFewer languages
- secession in Telugu
- వేర్పాటు vērpāṭu
- secession in Kannada
- ಬೇರ್ಪಡೆ, ಬಿಟ್ಟುಹೋಗುವುದು, ವಿಯೋಜನೆ, ಬೇರ್
- secession in Arabic
- إِنْشِقَاق ʔinšiqāq
- secession in Persian
- تجزیهطلبی tajziye-talabi, جداییخواهی jodâ-ye-xâhi
- secession in Vietnamese
- sự ra khỏi, sự ly khai
Synonyms of secession
Forms of secession
| plural | secessions |
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Origin of secession
From Latin sēcessiō (“a withdrawing”).
Words formed from secession
Phrases with secession
Questions about secession
- What does secession mean?
- Secession means the act of seceding.
- What is secession in Hindi?
- Secession in Hindi is अपगमन (apagman). See Secession meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is secession?
- Secession is a noun.
- How do you pronounce secession?
- Secession is pronounced /səˈsɛʃən/.
- What is the plural of secession?
- The plural of secession is secessions.
Words near secession in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: secession (page history and authors); secession (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); secession (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); secession (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); secession (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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