HOW TO PRONOUNCE
separation
/ˌsɛp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
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What does separation mean?
noun
- The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
- The act or condition of two or more people being separated from one another.
- The act or condition of a married couple living in separate homes while remaining legally married.
More meanings (5)
noun
- An agreement legalizing such an arrangement.
- The place at which a division occurs.
- An interval, gap or space that separates things or people.
- An object that separates two spaces.
- Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌsɛp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
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In the pages of books
See this word in context.
Here also we should preserve by Union, an advantage which nature holds out to us, and which would be relinquished by separation.
They did not distinctly know what had separated him and his wife, nor the date on which the separation had taken place.
More book examples (3)
He wondered that Fanny spoke so seldom of her, and had so little voluntarily to say of her concern at this separation.
But they faced, as all men since them have faced, that central paradox of the South, the social separation of the races.
The wife who, after years of separation, had escaped from her prison-house and followed her husband had told her story to him.