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divided

  • adjective

separated or split into pieces

Other meanings

  1. having conflicting opinions, interests or emotions

  2. (of a road) separated into lanes, that move in opposite directions, by a median

Example sentences

  • “Dinosaurs can be divided into avian dinosaurs and non-avian dinosaurs.”

    Tatoeba · Raizin · CC0

Word history

From Middle English "dividen" (to divide).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “divided” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.