department

Other forms of department

plural

departments·

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 department

What does department mean?

department means "a specialized division of a large organization". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in department?

department has 3 syllables: de-part-ment. The stress falls on "part". In IPA it is /dɪˈpɑɹtmənt/.

What is another word for department?

Close synonyms include section. 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.

Is department a common word?

department is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 department?

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