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divorce
English
Etymology
From Old French divorce, from Latin d?vortium, from d?vertere (“to turn aside”), from d?- (“apart”) + vertere (“to turn”); see verse.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??v??s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d??v??s/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /d??vo(?)?s/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /d??vo?s/
- Rhymes: -??(?)s
Noun
divorce (countable and uncountable, plural divorces)
- The legal dissolution of a marriage.
- Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene.
- A separation of connected things.
- The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines.
- (zoology) The separation of a bonded pair of animals.
- (obsolete) That which separates.
Synonyms
- (legal dissolution of a marriage): divorcement
- (separation of connected things): partition, separation, severance
Antonyms
- marriage
Derived terms
- velvet divorce
Translations
Verb
divorce (third-person singular simple present divorces, present participle divorcing, simple past and past participle divorced)
- (transitive) To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.
- (transitive) To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way.
- (intransitive) To obtain a legal divorce.
- (transitive) To separate something that was connected.
Synonyms
- (to legally dissolve a marriage): split up
- (to separate something that was connected): disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, separate
Antonyms
- marry
Derived terms
- innocently divorced
Translations
Anagrams
- codrive
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.v??s/
Etymology 1
From Latin d?vortium.
Noun
divorce m (plural divorces)
- divorce
Derived terms
- divorcer
Etymology 2
Verb
divorce
- first-person singular present indicative of divorcer
- third-person singular present indicative of divorcer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of divorcer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of divorcer
- second-person singular imperative of divorcer
Further reading
- “divorce” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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divorcer
English
Etymology
divorce +? -er
Noun
divorcer (plural divorcers)
- The person or cause that produces or effects a divorce.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Drummond to this entry?)
Antonyms
- divorcee
Anagrams
- codriver
French
Etymology
divorce +? -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di.v??.se/
Verb
divorcer
- (transitive) to divorce (to legally dissolve a marriage)
- (reflexive, se divorcer) to get divorced, to divorce one another
Conjugation
This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which ‘c’ is softened to a ‘ç’ before the vowels ‘a’ and ‘o’.
Related terms
- divorce
Further reading
- “divorcer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norman
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb
divorcer
- (Jersey) to divorce
- (Jersey, reflexive, s'divorcer) to get divorced
Synonyms
- dêmathier
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