apart

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   Separated by a distance in space or time.

   The two houses are about a mile apart.

2. 2
   adv

   Into separate pieces.

   He took the old clock apart to fix it.

3. 3
   adv

   So as to tell one thing from another.

   The twins look so alike that I can't tell them apart.

4. 4
   adv

   Not counted or considered; aside from.

   These small problems apart, the project went well.

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Simplified etymology

Apart, recorded in late Middle English, comes from Latin a parte, meaning “at the side,” based on pars, part- “part.”

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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