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say it: uh-PAHRT
apart is an adverb and adjective meaning "separated or at a distance in place or position or time". It carries 8 recorded senses.
separated or at a distance in place or position or time
“These towns are many miles apart”
“stood with his legs apart”
“born two years apart”
not taken into account or excluded from consideration
“these problems apart, the country is doing well”
“all joking aside, I think you're crazy”
away from another or others
“they grew apart over the years”
“kept apart from the group out of shyness”
“decided to live apart”
placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose
“had a feeling of being set apart”
“quality sets it apart”
“a day set aside for relaxing”
one from the other
“people can't tell the twins apart”
remote and separate physically or socially
“existed over the centuries as a world apart”
“preserved because they inhabited a place apart”
“tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization”
“an obscure village”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for apart come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.