departure

Other forms of departure

plural

departures·

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 departure

What does departure mean?

departure means "the act of departing". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in departure?

departure has 3 syllables: de-par-ture. The stress falls on "par". In IPA it is /dɪˈpɑɹtʃɚ/.

What is another word for departure?

Close synonyms include going, going away, leaving, deviation, divergence. 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 departure a common word?

departure is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.