depart

Other forms of depart

past tense

departed·

present participle

departing·

third person

departs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about depart

What does depart mean?

depart means "move away from a place into another direction". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in depart?

depart has 2 syllables: de-part. The stress falls on "part". In IPA it is /dɪˈpɑɹt/.

What is another word for depart?

Close synonyms include go, go away, deviate, vary, diverge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of depart?

The recorded antonyms are stay.

Is depart a common word?

depart is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with depart?

7 words rhyme with depart. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.