divorce

1. 1.

   the legal dissolution of a marriage

   Synonymsdivorcement

   Broaderseparation

   law

Other forms of divorce

plural

divorces·

past tense

divorced·

present participle

divorcing·

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 divorce

What does divorce mean?

divorce means "part; cease or break association with". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in divorce?

divorce has 2 syllables: di-vorce. The stress falls on "vorce". In IPA it is /dɪˈvɔɹs/.

What is another word for divorce?

Close synonyms include disassociate, dissociate, disunite, disjoint, split up. 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 divorce a common word?

divorce 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.