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| 1. | [ adverb ] separated or at a distance in place or position or time | |
| Examples: | "These towns are many miles apart" "stood with his legs apart" "born two years apart" |
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| 2. | [ adverb ] not taken into account or excluded from consideration | |
| Synonyms: | aside | |
| Examples: | "these problems apart, the country is doing well" "all joking aside, I think you're crazy" |
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| 3. | [ adjective ] remote and separate physically or socially | |
| Synonyms: | obscure isolated | |
| Examples: | "existed over the centuries as a world apart" "preserved because they inhabited a place apart"- W.H.Hudson "tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization" "an obscure village" |
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| Related terms: | unconnected | |
| 4. | [ adverb ] away from another or others | |
| Examples: | "they grew apart over the years" "kept apart from the group out of shyness" "decided to live apart" |
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| 5. | [ adverb ] placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose | |
| Synonyms: | aside | |
| Examples: | "had a feeling of being set apart" "quality sets it apart" "a day set aside for relaxing" |
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| 6. | [ adverb ] into parts or pieces | |
| Synonyms: | asunder | |
| Examples: | "he took his father's watch apart" "split apart" "torn asunder" |
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| 7. | [ adverb ] one from the other | |
| Examples: | "people can't tell the twins apart" |
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| 8. | [ adjective ] not living together as man and wife | |
| Synonyms: | separated separate | |
| Examples: | "decided to live apart" "maintaining separate households" "they are separated" |
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| Related terms: | divided | |
| 9. | [ adjective ] having characteristics not shared by others | |
| Examples: | "scientists felt they were a group apart"- Vannever Bush |
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| Related terms: | separate | |
| Similar spelling: |
apertif aperture aperitif |
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