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  • English Word Department Definition A territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire.
  • English Word Department Definition A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
  • English Word Departmental Definition Pertaining to a department or division.
  • English Word Departure Definition Division; separation; putting away.
  • English Word Departure Definition Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.
  • English Word Departure Definition Removal from the present life; death; decease.
  • English Word Departure Definition Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose.
  • English Word Departure Definition The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.
  • English Word Departure Definition The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.
  • English Word Depascent Definition Feeding.
  • English Word Depasture Definition To pasture; to feed; to graze; also, to use for pasture.
  • English Word Depatriate Definition To withdraw, or cause to withdraw, from one's country; to banish.
  • English Word Depauperate Definition To make poor; to impoverish.
  • English Word Depauperate Definition Falling short of the natural size, from being impoverished or starved.
  • English Word Depauperated Definition of Depauperate
  • English Word Depauperating Definition of Depauperate
  • English Word Depauperize Definition To free from paupers; to rescue from poverty.
  • English Word Depeach Definition To discharge.
  • English Word Depectible Definition Tough; thick; capable of extension.
  • English Word Depeculation Definition A robbing or embezzlement.
  • English Word Depeinct Definition To paint.
  • English Word Depend Definition To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above.
  • English Word Depend Definition To hang in suspense; to be pending; to be undetermined or undecided; as, a cause depending in court.
  • English Word Depend Definition To rely for support; to be conditioned or contingent; to be connected with anything, as a cause of existence, or as a necessary condition; -- followed by on or upon, formerly by of.
  • English Word Depend Definition To trust; to rest with confidence; to rely; to confide; to be certain; -- with on or upon; as, we depend on the word or assurance of our friends; we depend on the mail at the usual hour.
  • English Word Depend Definition To serve; to attend; to act as a dependent or retainer.
  • English Word Depend Definition To impend.
  • English Word Dependable Definition Worthy of being depended on; trustworthy.
  • English Word Dependance Definition Alt. of Dependancy
  • English Word Dependancy Definition See Dependent, Dependence, Dependency.