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DEPARTED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who is no longer alive
Example:
I wonder what the dead person would have done
Synonyms:
dead person; dead soul; deceased; deceased person; decedent; departed
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("departed" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "departed"):
infernal (an inhabitant of Hell)
living dead; zombi; zombie (a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force)
Instance hyponyms:
Lazarus (the person who Jesus raised from the dead after four days in the tomb; this miracle caused the enemies of Jesus to begin the plan to put him to death)
Holonyms ("departed" is a member of...):
dead (people who are no longer living)
Derivation:
departed (dead)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dead
Example:
our dear departed friend
Synonyms:
asleep; at peace; at rest; deceased; departed; gone
Classified under:
Similar:
dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)
Domain usage:
euphemism (an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh)
Derivation:
departed (someone who is no longer alive)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Well in the past; former
Example:
relics of a departed era
Synonyms:
bygone; bypast; departed; foregone; gone
Classified under:
Similar:
past (earlier than the present time; no longer current)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb depart
Context examples:
With these he departed, but he cared nothing for the gold pieces.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
But monsieur could not wait even a 'flash of time', and in the middle of the speech departed to find mademoiselle himself.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
A portrait—very like—of a departed wife, not valued by the husband!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The cook here turned to me, saying that Mrs. Fairfax was waiting for me: so I departed.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
At night we could hear from amid the trees the long-drawn cry, as some primitive Ezekiel mourned for fallen greatness and recalled the departed glories of Ape Town.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
From these instructions they were summoned by the arrival of the coach; and with many speeches of thankfulness on Mr. Collins's side and as many bows on Sir William's they departed.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The honour was readily granted, and he then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Every body had a degree of gravity and sorrow; tenderness towards the departed, solicitude for the surviving friends; and, in a reasonable time, curiosity to know where she would be buried.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
“I am afraid that it will take wiser heads than yours or mine,” he remarked, and bowing in a stately, old-fashioned manner he departed.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Siwashes had waited on the white people until the eleventh hour, and then departed.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
