apart
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
apart/əˈpɑːt/
▶adverb
- 1 separated by a specified distance.
■ no longer living together or close emotionally.
- 2 to or on one side.
- 3 into pieces.
– phrases
apart from
apart from
- 1 except for.
- 2 as well as.
– derivatives
apartness noun.
apartness noun.
– origin ME: from OFr., from L. a parte ‘at the side’.
'apart' also found in these Oxford entries:
air bearing
- airmiss
- apartheid
- aside
- astride
- asunder
- bandy
- bear garden
- beside
- besides
- beyond
- blast
- body
- burst
- busway
- but
- close
- cracker
- crumble
- defer
- dia-
- diaeresis
- diaphragm
- dichogamy
- dichotic
- dichotomy
- dicynodont
- discern
- discerption
- discuss
- disjoint
- dismember
- dispel
- disrupt
- dissident
- dissolve
- dissonant
- distant
- distend
- distinction
- distinguish
- distort
- distract
- distrain
- distraught
- distress
- district
- divaricate
- divide
