different between divorce vs nondivorce

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

Etymology

non- +? divorce

Adjective

nondivorce (not comparable)

1. (chiefly sociology) Not of, pertaining to, or affected by divorce.