departure

English

Etymology

From Old French deporteure (“departure; figuratively, death”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) 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.

   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     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.”

   • 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 590:

     But the outstanding feature of the new timetable arrangement, additional to the standardised departure times, is the number of intermediate points, in addition to such principal cities as Bristol, Plymouth, Cardiff and Birmingham, that now have departures for Paddington at the same minutes past the hour throughout the day.

   • 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.

3. A deviation from a plan or procedure.
   • 1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company, →OCLC:

     any departure from a national standard

   There are several significant departures, however, from current practice.

4. (euphemistic) A death.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Timothy 4:6:

     The time of my departure is at hand.

   • a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:

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

5. (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.
6. (surveying) The difference in easting between the two ends of a line or curve.

   The area is computed by latitudes and departures.

7. (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
8. (obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.
   • 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:

     no other remedy […] but absolute departure

Synonyms

• leaving

Antonyms

• arrival

Derived terms

• departure gate
• departure lounge
• departure tax
• departure time
• hold-departure order
• nondeparture
• point of departure
• postdeparture
• predeparture
• time of departure

 

Related terms

• depart

Translations

the act of departing

• Afrikaans: vertrek (af)
• Arabic: رَحِيل m (raḥīl), مُغَادَرَة f (muḡādara), إقْلَاع (ar) m (ʔiqlāʕ)

  Hijazi Arabic: روحة f (rōḥa), إقْلَاع m (ʔiglāʕ)

• Armenian: մեկնում (hy) (meknum)
• Azerbaijani: gediş (az)
• 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), 離開／离开 (zh) (líkāi)

• Czech: (by foot) odchod (cs) m, (by train) odjezd (cs) m, (by plane) odlet (cs) m
• Danish: afgang (da) c, afrejse (da) c, udsejling c (nautical)
• Dutch: vertrek (nl) n
• Esperanto: disiĝo foriro
• Farefare: we'esgo
• Finnish: lähtö (fi)
• French: départ (fr) m
• Galician: ida f, saída (gl) f, partida f
• Georgian: გამგზავრება (gamgzavreba)
• German: Abfahrt (de) f, (voyage) Abreise (de) f, (flight) Abflug (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌿𐌽𐍃 f (urruns), 𐌳𐌹𐍃𐍅𐌹𐍃𐍃 f (diswiss)
• Greek: αναχώρηση (el) f (anachórisi)
• Hebrew: הַפְלָגָה (he) f (haflaga)
• Hindi: प्रस्थान (hi) m (prasthān)
• Hungarian: távozás (hu), indulás (hu)
• Icelandic: brottför (is) f
• Indonesian: keberangkatan (id)
• Italian: partenza (it) f
• Japanese: 出発 (ja) (しゅっぱつ, shuppatsu), 発車 (ja) (はっしゃ, hassha)
• Korean: 출발(出發) (ko) (chulbal)
• Latin: abitus m, itus (la) m, abitio (la) f, egressus
• Macedonian: заминување n (zaminuvanje)
• Malay: perlepasan
• 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)
• Tocharian B: lalñe
• 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)
• Yiddish: אַוועקפֿאָר m (avekfor)

deviation from a plan or procedure

• Bulgarian: отклонение (bg) n (otklonenie)
• Danish: afvigelse c
• Dutch: afwijking (nl) f
• Finnish: poikkeama (fi)
• French: déviation (fr)
• German: Verlassen (de) n
• Hungarian: eltérés (hu)
• Italian: deviazione (it) m, punto di svolta
• 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

• Afrikaans: heengaan, sterf (af)
• Bulgarian: смърт (bg) f (smǎrt)
• Danish: død (da) c, bortgang c
• Dutch: overlijden (nl) n
• Finnish: poismeno (fi), kuolema (fi)
• German: Sterben (de) n, Dahinscheiden n
• Gothic: 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌿𐌽𐍃 f (urruns)
• Greek: αναχώρηση (el) f (anachórisi)
• Hungarian: eltávozás (hu)
• Italian: dipartenza m, dipartita (it) f, morte (it) f, trapasso (it) m
• 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
• Slovak: ^{(please verify)} odchod m

References

• “departure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Further reading

• departure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• apertured