divorce B2 Topic:Family & Relationships US /dɪˈvoɹs/ UK /dɪˈvɔːs/ See IPA manual Freq #1825 Meanings 1 noun The legal ending of a marriage. After years of unhappiness, they finally decided to get a divorce. 2 verb To legally end your marriage to someone. She divorced her husband after she discovered he had lied to her. 3 verb To separate two things that are normally connected. You cannot divorce these ideas from their historical context. Thesaurus Synonyms 1 noun · the legal ending of a... divorcement 3 verb · to separate two things that... separatedissociate ↔ Opposites marriagemarry Word family Forms divorcesdivorcing Derived forms antidivorcedivorceabledivorceedivorcelessdivorcerdivorcibledivorcivedivortialitydudevorcenondivorcenondivorcingpostdivorce Common collocations divorce court Noun + noun Etymology AI details Derived from Old French divorce, from Latin dīvortium, from dīvertere (“to turn aside”), from dī- (“apart”) + vertere (“to turn”); see verse. *wert- Proto-Indo-European divorce Old French dīvortium Latin View etymology graph -> Topics Family & Relationships Register & Style External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # divorce **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** noun, verb **IPA (US):** /dɪˈvoɹs/ **IPA (UK):** /dɪˈvɔːs/ **Frequency rank:** 1825 ## Meanings 1. The legal ending of a marriage. 2. To legally end your marriage to someone. 3. To separate two things that are normally connected. ## Examples - After years of unhappiness, they finally decided to get a divorce. - She divorced her husband after she discovered he had lied to her. - You cannot divorce these ideas from their historical context. ## Antonyms - marriage - marry ## Derived Forms - antidivorce - divorceable - divorcee - divorceless - divorcer - divorcible - divorcive - divortiality - dudevorce - nondivorce - nondivorcing - postdivorce ## Roots and Affixes - Root: *wert- - Root: divorce - Root: dīvortium ## Etymology Derived from Old French divorce, from Latin dīvortium, from dīvertere (“to turn aside”), from dī- (“apart”) + vertere (“to turn”); see verse. ## AI Etymology Divorce is derived from Old French divorce, from Latin dīvortium, from dīvertere (“to turn aside”), from dī- (“apart”) + vertere (“to turn”); see verse. In current use, the main senses are “The legal ending of a marriage” and “To legally end your marriage to someone”. Its deeper ancestry includes Proto-Indo-European *wert-. ## Topics - Family & Relationships - Register & Style markdown