divorce
The legal dissolution of a marriage.
Other meanings
A separation of connected things.
“The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines.”
The separation of a bonded pair of animals.
Antonyms
- marriage
Related words
- alpine divorce
- antidivorce
- divorceless
- divorcive
- divortiality
- dudevorce
- nondivorce
- postdivorce
- predivorce
- redivorce
- undivorce
- Spenard divorce
Word history
From Latin "dīvortium".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “divorce” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.