different between divorce vs hotchpot

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)

1. The legal dissolution of a marriage.

   Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene.

2. 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.
3. (zoology) The separation of a bonded pair of animals.
4. (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)

1. (transitive) To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.

2. (transitive) To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way.

3. (intransitive) To obtain a legal divorce.

4. (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)

1. divorce

Derived terms

• divorcer

Etymology 2

Verb

divorce

1. first-person singular present indicative of divorcer
2. third-person singular present indicative of divorcer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of divorcer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of divorcer
5. second-person singular imperative of divorcer

Further reading

• “divorce” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Noun

hotchpot (plural hotchpots)

1. Alternative form of hotchpotch
2. (civil law, inheritance) The blending together of property so as to achieve equal division, mainly in the case of inheritance.

   Synonym: collation

Translations