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SECESSION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Formal separation from an alliance or federation
Synonyms:
secession; withdrawal
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("secession" is a kind of...):
separation (the act of dividing or disconnecting)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "secession"):
breakaway; breaking away (the act of breaking away or withdrawing from)
Derivation:
secede (withdraw from an organization or communion)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Instance hypernyms:
separation (the act of dividing or disconnecting)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s
Synonyms:
secession; sezession
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("secession" is a kind of...):
school (a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers)
art movement; artistic movement (a group of artists who agree on general principles)
