Apart
adj, adv, postp ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 Exceptional, distinct. not-comparable
"In aristocracies, servants are a class apart."
- 2 Having been taken apart; disassembled, in pieces. not-comparable
- 3 Separate, on the side. not-comparable
"The young lover was in waiting, to hand them out of the large substantial carriage, and the first quiet moment that he could find for an apart whisper, said, "What can be the reason that your mother has never taken the slightest notice of my letter?""
- 1 remote and separate physically or socially wordnet
- 2 having characteristics not shared by others wordnet
- 1 Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
"We had a large bus and I had two of them at the front and two at the back, and I had to sit in the middle and keep them apart."
- 2 Separately, exclusively, not together.
"Consider the two propositions apart."
- 3 In or into two or more parts.
"We took the computer apart and put it back together."
- 4 To the side; aside.
"Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls."
- 1 not taken into account or excluded from consideration wordnet
- 2 into parts or pieces wordnet
- 3 separated or at a distance in place or position or time wordnet
- 4 one from the other wordnet
- 5 placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose wordnet
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- 6 away from another or others wordnet
- 1 Excluded from consideration.
"Joking apart, what do you think?"
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More examples"You had better set some money apart for your wedding."
Etymology
From Middle English apart, aparte, a-part, a part, from Anglo-Norman a part, from Latin ad partem (“to the side”).
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