Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense departs, present participle departing, past tense, past participle departed
1. verb
When something or someone departsfrom a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.
Our tour departs from Heathrow Airport on 31 March and returns 16 April. [VERB + from]
In the morning Mr McDonald departed for Sydney. [VERB + for]
The coach departs Potsdam in the morning. [VERB noun]
[Also VERB]
Synonyms: leave, go, withdraw, retire More Synonyms of depart
2. verb
If you departfrom a traditional, accepted, or agreed way of doing something, you do it in a different or unexpected way.
Why is it in this country that we have departed from good educational sense? [VERB + from]
It takes a brave cook to depart radically from the traditional Christmas menu. [VERBfrom noun]
Synonyms: deviate, vary, differ, stray More Synonyms of depart
3. verb
If someone departs from a job, they resign from it or leave it. In American English, you can say that someone departs a job.
Lipton is planning to depart from the company he founded. [VERB + from]
It is not unusual for staff to depart at this time of year. [VERB]
He departed baseball in the '60s. [VERB noun]
4. verb
When someone departsthis life, or departsthis earth, they die.
[literary]
He departed this world with a sense of having fulfilled his destiny. [VERB noun]
More Synonyms of depart
depart in British English
(dɪˈpɑːt)
verb(mainly intr)
1.
to go away; leave
2.
to start out; set forth
3. (usually foll by from)
to deviate; differ; vary
to depart from normal procedure
4. (transitive)
to quit (archaic, except in the phrase depart this life)
Word origin
C13: from Old French departir, from de- + partir to go away, divide, from Latin partīrī to divide, distribute, from pars a part
depart in American English
(diˈpɑrt; dɪˈpɑrt)
verb intransitive
1.
to go away (from); leave
2.
to set out; start
3.
to die
4.
to turn aside (from)
to depart from custom
verb transitive
5.
to leave
flight 10 departs Chicago at 2 P.M.
noun
6. Obsolete
a departure
Idioms:
depart this life
Word origin
ME departen < OFr departir < VL departire, to divide, separate, for L dispartire < dis-, apart + partire, to divide < pars (see part2): orig. vt., to divide
Examples of 'depart' in a sentence
depart
Here, Glasgow showed exactly the kind of attacking maturity their departing coach has spent five years honing.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
The lobster had departed this life some days ago.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
There are two essentials when departing the top job.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
In towns, walk or book a coach tour departing from main hotels.
Delaforce, Patrick Collins Traveller-Tuscany and Florence (1993)
But when the curtain went down yesterday, their departing coach sung their praises and overlooked their weaknesses.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The game came at the end of a very strange week in which two people who appeared to be doing wonderful jobs departed from them.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
On Europe and the eurozone, the coalition agreement does not depart radically from the policies that emerged during the financial meltdown.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
In other languages
depart
British English: depart /dɪˈpɑːt/ VERB
To depart from a place means to leave it and start a journey to another place.