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semi-detachment

semi-detachment noun: the state of being semi-detached.

Noun

semi-detachment (uncountable)

  1. The state of being semi-detached.
    • Not only in its name, Glen Bank, and its white-painted semi-detachment, but in its hunting pictures and Marcus Stone engravings, its plush curtains, its mahogany furniture and its scarcity of books, our Macclesfield house represented all that was essentially middle-class in that Edwardian decade.1933, Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth, Penguin, published 2005, page 23

Origin of semi-detachment

From semi- + detachment, after semi-detached.

Questions about semi-detachment

What does semi-detachment mean?
Semi-detachment means the state of being semi-detached.
What part of speech is semi-detachment?
Semi-detachment is a noun.

Words near semi-detachment in the dictionary

  1. semi-deponents
  2. semi-desert
  3. semi-deserts
  4. semi-detached
  5. semi-detacheds
  6. semi-detachment
  7. semi-diarrhea
  8. semi-display
  9. semi-divine
  10. semi-domesticated
  11. semi-dorky

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