departure

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French deporteure (“departure; figuratively, death”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)tjə(ɹ)/, /dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃə(ɹ)/

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Noun

departure (countable and uncountable, plural departures)

1. The act of departing or something that has departed.

   The departure was scheduled for noon.

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎^[1]:

     The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running: “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”

   • 2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport:

     Villa spent most of the second period probing from wide areas and had a succession of corners but despite their profligacy they will be glad to overturn the 6-0 hammering they suffered at St James' Park in August following former boss Martin O'Neill's departure.

2. A deviation from a plan or procedure.
   • (Can we date this quote by Prescott and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     any departure from a national standard

   • There are several significant departures, however, from current practice.
3. (euphemistic) A death.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Bible, 2 Timothy 4:6

     The time of my departure is at hand.

   • (Can we date this quote by Philip Sidney and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     His timely departure […] barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries.

4. (navigation) The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the product of the distance sailed and the sine of the angle made by the course with the meridian.
5. (surveying) The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve.

   The area is computed by latitudes and departures.

6. (law) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)

7. (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.
   • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     no other remedy […] but absolute departure

Synonyms

• leaving

Antonyms

• arrival

Related terms

• depart
• departure lounge
• departure tax

Translations

the act of departing

• Arabic: رَحِيل m (raḥīl), مُغَادَرَة f (muḡādara)
• Armenian: մեկնում (hy) (meknum)
• Belarusian: адпраўле́нне n (adpraŭljénnje), вы́езд m (výjezd), ад'е́зд m (adʺjézd), вы́лет m (výljet) (also of flights)
• Bulgarian: заминаване (bg) n (zaminavane), тръгване (bg) n (trǎgvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 出發／出发 (zh) (chūfā), 出发 (zh) (chūfā), 離開／离开 (zh) (líkāi), 离开 (zh) (líkāi)

• Czech: (by foot) odchod (cs) m, (by train) odjezd (cs) m, (by plane) odlet m
• Danish: afgang (da) c, afrejse c
• Dutch: vertrek (nl) n
• Esperanto: foriro
• Finnish: lähtö (fi)
• French: départ (fr) m
• German: Abfahrt (de) f, (voyage) Abreise (de) f, (flight) Abflug (de) m
• Greek: αναχώρηση (el) f (anachórisi)
• Hindi: प्रस्थान (hi) m (prasthān)
• Hungarian: távozás (hu), indulás (hu)
• Icelandic: brottför (is) f
• Italian: partenza (it) f
• Japanese: 出発 (ja) (しゅっぱつ, shuppatsu), 発車 (ja) (はっしゃ, hassha)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 출발 (ko) (chulbal) (出發 (ko))
• Latin: abitus m, itus (la) m, abitio (la) f, egressus
• Macedonian: заминување n (zaminuvanje)
• Maori: wehenga, haerenga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avgang m, avreise m or f

  Nynorsk: avgang m, avreise f

• Persian: عزیمت (fa) ('azimat)
• Portuguese: partida (pt) f
• Quechua: lluqsi
• Romanian: plecare (ro) f
• Russian: отправле́ние (ru) n (otpravlénije), вы́езд (ru) m (výjezd), отъе́зд (ru) m (otʺjézd), (also of flights) вы́лет (ru) m (výlet)
• Slovene: odhod (sl) m
• Spanish: salida (es) f, partida (es) f
• Swedish: avgång (sv) c, avfart (sv) c, avfärd (sv)
• Telugu: పోకడ (te) (pōkaḍa)
• Ukrainian: відпра́влення n (vidprávlennja), ви́їзд m (výjizd), від'ї́зд m (vidʺjízd), (also of flights) ви́літ m (výlit)
• Vietnamese: sự rời khỏi, sự ra đi (vi)

deviation from a plan or procedure

• Bulgarian: отклонение (bg) n (otklonenie)
• Danish: afvigelse c
• Dutch: afwijking (nl) f
• Finnish: poikkeama
• French: déviation (fr)
• German: Verlassen (de) n
• Hungarian: eltérés (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: deviazione (it) m
• Norwegian: avvik n
• Portuguese: desvio (pt) m
• Russian: уклоне́ние (ru) n (uklonénije), отклоне́ние (ru) n (otklonénije), отступле́ние (ru) n (otstuplénije)
• Slovene: odstopanje n
• Swedish: avvikelse (sv) c, avsteg (sv) n
• Ukrainian: відхи́лення n (vidxýlennja)

death

• Bulgarian: смърт (bg) f (smǎrt)
• Danish: død (da) c, bortgang c
• Dutch: overlijden (nl) n
• Finnish: poismeno (fi), kuolema (fi)
• German: Dahinscheiden n
• Greek: αναχώρηση (el) f (anachórisi)
• Hungarian: eltávozás (hu)
• Italian: dipartenza m, dipartita f, morte (it) f, trapasso (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: abitio (la) f
• Norwegian: bortgang m
• Portuguese: óbito (pt) m
• Russian: кончи́на (ru) f (končína), смерть (ru) f (smertʹ)
• Slovene: odhod (sl) m
• Spanish: partida (es) f
• Swedish: bortgång (sv) c
• Ukrainian: смерть (uk) f (smertʹ), відхі́д m (vidxíd), (obsolete) упоко́єння n (upokójennja), (obsolete) упокі́й m (upokíj)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} partita
• Romanian: plecare (ro) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} odchod m

Further reading

• departure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• apertured