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English
Etymology
From Latin sēparātus, perfect passive participle of sēparāre (“to separate”), from sē (“apart”) + parō (“prepare”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“produce, procure, bring forward, bring forth”). Displaced Middle English scheden, from Old English scēadan (whence English shed).
Pronunciation
- (adjective, noun)
- (verb)
- Hyphenation: sep‧a‧rate
Adjective
separate (not comparable)
- Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
This chair can be disassembled into five separate pieces.
- (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
I try to keep my personal life separate from work.
Derived terms
Translations
apart from; not connected to
- Afrikaans: geskeide, aparte, afgesonderde, separaat
- Arabic: مُنْفَصِل (munfaṣil)
- Hijazi Arabic: مَفْصول (mafṣūl), مُفَرَّق (mufarrag)
- Armenian: առանձին (hy) (aṙanjin), անջատ (hy) (anǰat)
- Assamese: সুকীয়া (xukia)
- Bashkir: айырым (ayırım), башҡа (başqa)
- Belarusian: асо́бны (be) (asóbny)
- Bulgarian: отде́лен (bg) (otdélen)
- Catalan: separat (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 分開的/分开的 (fēnkāi de)
- Chukchi: янракэн (janrakėn)
- Dutch: afzonderlijk (nl), gescheiden (nl), afgezonderd (nl), afgezonderde (nl), separaat (nl)
- Esperanto: malkuna
- Finnish: erillinen (fi), eri (fi), irtonainen (fi)
- French: séparé (fr) m, séparée (fr) f
- Galician: xebre, estremado, separado, avulso
- German: einzeln (de), getrennt (de), separat (de)
- Hindi: अलग (hi) (alag)
- Hungarian: külön (hu), különálló (hu)
- Icelandic: aðkilinn
- Interlingua: separate
- Italian: separato (it) m, separata (it) f
- Japanese: 分れた (わかれた, wakareta)
- Korean: 개개의 (gaegae'ui)
- Latin: distinctus, sēcrētus
- Maori: nahenahe, tūwehe
- Pashto: بېل (ps) (bel), جلا (ps) (jëlâ)
- Polish: oddzielny (pl), osobny (pl) m
- Portuguese: separado (pt)
- Punjabi: ਅਲਹਿਦਾ (pa) (alahidā)
- Romanian: separat (ro) m or n, separată f
- Russian: отде́льный (ru) (otdélʹnyj), обосо́бленный (ru) (obosóblennyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: air leth
- Southern Altai: башка (baška)
- Spanish: separado (es)
- Swedish: avskild (sv), skiljd, separat (sv)
- Tamil: பிரி (ta) (piri)
- Telugu: విడి (te) (viḍi)
- Turkish: ayrı (tr)
- Ukrainian: окре́мий (uk) (okrémyj)
- Urdu: الگ (alag)
- Welsh: gwahan
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followed by "from": not together with
Verb
separate (third-person singular simple present separates, present participle separating, simple past and past participle separated)
- (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
- Synonyms: partition, split; see also Thesaurus:divide
Separate the articles from the headings.
- (transitive) To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:disjoin
1683, John Dryden, The Art of Poetry:From the fine gold I separate the allay [alloy].
- (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
- Synonyms: split up, tear apart
If the kids get too noisy, separate them for a few minutes.
2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
- (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
- Synonyms: break down, come apart, disintegrate, fall apart
The sauce will separate if you don't keep stirring.
- (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
- Synonyms: earmark, sepose; see also Thesaurus:set apart
Alternative forms
Antonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
to divide into separate parts
to disunite, disconnect
- Afrikaans: skei, deel (af), verdeel (af)
- Arabic: فَصَلَ (ar) (faṣala)
- Moroccan Arabic: فْرق (frəq)
- Armenian: առանձնացնել (hy) (aṙanjnacʻnel), բաժանել (hy) (bažanel), տրոհել (hy) (trohel)
- Aromanian: dispartu
- Azerbaijani: ayırmaq (az)
- Bashkir: айырыу (ayırıw)
- Belarusian: аддзяля́ць impf (addzjaljácʹ), аддзялі́ць pf (addzjalícʹ)
- Bulgarian: разглобявам (bg) (razglobjavam), разлагам (bg) (razlagam)
- Catalan: separar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 分離/分离 (zh) (fēnlí), 分開/分开 (zh) (fēnkāi), 隔 (zh) (gé)
- Czech: oddělovat (cs) impf, oddělit (cs) pf
- Danish: adskille (da)
- Dutch: scheiden (nl)
- Esperanto: malkunigi
- Finnish: erottaa (fi)
- French: séparer (fr)
- Galician: xebrar (gl), separar (gl)
- Georgian: დაშლა (dašla), დაცილება (dacileba), მოშორება (mošoreba), ჩამოშორება (čamošoreba), განცალკევება (gancalḳeveba), გამოყოფა (gamoq̇opa)
- German: trennen (de), scheiden (de), separieren (de)
- Greek: χωρίζω (el) (chorízo)
- Ancient: χωρίζω (khōrízō)
- Hungarian: elválaszt (hu), elkülönít (hu), szeparál (hu)
- Interlingua: separar
- Irish: deighil, scaoil i
- Italian: separare (it)
- Japanese: 切り離す (ja) (きりはなす, kirihanasu), 分離する (ja) (ぶんりする, bunri suru)
- Korean: 분리(分離)하다 (ko) (bullihada)
- Malayalam: വേർതിരിക്കുക (ml) (vēṟtirikkuka)
- Maori: tiriwā, īheuheu, tautoko (mi)
- Nahuatl: caltechoa, xeloa
- Norman: s'pather (Jersey)
- Occitan: separar (oc)
- Old English: tōdǣlan, ġetwǣfan
- Plautdietsch: scheeden
- Polish: oddzielać (pl) impf, oddzielić (pl) pf, separować (pl) impf
- Portuguese: separar (pt)
- Romanian: despărți (ro), separa (ro)
- Russian: отделя́ть (ru) impf (otdeljátʹ), отдели́ть (ru) pf (otdelítʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: eadar-dhealaich
- Sidamo: bada
- Spanish: separar (es)
- Swedish: avskilja (sv), skilja (sv), dela (sv)
- Telugu: వేరు చేయు (vēru cēyu)
- Tocharian B: putk-
- Turkish: ayırmak (tr)
- Ukrainian: відділя́ти impf (viddiljáty), відділи́ти pf (viddilýty), відокре́млювати impf (vidokrémljuvaty), відокре́мити pf (vidokrémyty)
- Walloon: schåyî (wa)
- ǃXóõ: khàla
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to cause to be separate
- Afrikaans: skei, verdeel (af)
- Armenian: առանձնացնել (hy) (aṙanjnacʻnel), բաժանել (hy) (bažanel), անջատել (hy) (anǰatel)
- Azerbaijani: ayırmaq (az)
- Bulgarian: отделям (bg) (otdeljam)
- Catalan: separar (ca)
- Danish: adskille (da), afsondre
- Dutch: scheiden (nl), afzonderen (nl)
- Esperanto: malkunigi
- Finnish: erottaa (fi)
- French: séparer (fr)
- Galician: xebrar (gl), separar (gl), arredar (gl),
- German: separieren (de), unterscheiden (de), absondern (de)
- Hungarian: elkülönít (hu), szeparál (hu)
- Interlingua: separar
- Indonesian: memisahkan (id)
- Malayalam: വേർതിരിക്കുക (ml) (vēṟtirikkuka)
- Maori: wawao (refers to combatants), īheuheu, wawao (Refers particularly to parting combatants)
- Norman: s'pather (Jersey)
- Norwegian: skille (no), avsondre
- Occitan: separar (oc)
- Old English: tōdǣlan, ġetwǣfan
- Polish: rozdzielać (pl), rozdzielić (pl), separować (pl) impf
- Portuguese: separar (pt)
- Romanian: despărți (ro), separa (ro)
- Russian: разделя́ть (ru) (razdeljátʹ), разъединя́ть (ru) (razʺjedinjátʹ), разлуча́ть (ru) (razlučátʹ) (of people)
- Scottish Gaelic: eadar-dhealaich
- Spanish: separar (es), disgregar (es)
- Swedish: dela (sv), skilja (sv), avskilja (sv)
- Telugu: వేరు చేయు (vēru cēyu)
- Turkish: ayırmak (tr)
- Ukrainian: розділя́ти (rozdiljáty)
- ǃXóõ: khàla
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to divide itself
- Afrikaans: skei
- Dutch: scheiden (nl), zich verdelen (nl), schiften (nl)
- Esperanto: malkuniĝi
- Finnish: erottua (fi)
- French: se séparer (fr)
- Galician: xebrarse, escabildarse, atagallarse, escabardar (gl), estrombar, arredarse
- German: sich trennen, auseinanderfallen
- Greek: κόβω (el) (kóvo)
- Hungarian: elkülönül (hu)
- Japanese: 分かれる (ja) (わかれる, wakareru), 別れる (ja) (わかれる, wakareru)
- Korean: 분리(分離)되다 (ko) (bullidoeda)
- Latvian: sadalīties
- Malayalam: വേർതിരിയുക (ml) (vēṟtiriyuka)
- Portuguese: separar-se
- Quechua: haytarakuy
- Romanian: separa (ro)
- Russian: разделя́ться (ru) (razdeljátʹsja)
- Spanish: separarse (es)
- Swedish: dela (sv), splittra (sv), söndra (sv)
- Telugu: విడిపోవు (te) (viḍipōvu)
- Turkish: bölmek (tr)
- Ukrainian: розділя́тися (rozdiljátysja), відділя́тися (viddiljátysja), відокре́млюватися (vidokrémljuvatysja)
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Noun
separate (plural separates)
- (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially articles of clothing such as blouses, skirts, jackets, and pants.
2017 October 2, Jess Cartner-Morle, “Stella McCartney lays waste to disposable fashion in Paris”, in the Guardian:French taffeta evening separates – a puffball skirt, and a ruffled blouse – were pressed flat to drag them up to date.
- (bibliography) A printing of an article from a periodical as its own distinct publication and distributed independently, often with different page numbers.
Usage notes
- The spelling is separate (-par-). seperate (-per-) is a common misspelling.
See also
Anagrams
German
Pronunciation
Adjective
separate
- inflection of separat:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Interlingua
Adjective
separate (not comparable)
- separate
Participle
separate
- past participle of separar
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /se.paˈra.te/
- Rhymes: -ate
- Hyphenation: se‧pa‧rà‧te
Adjective
separate
- feminine plural of separato
Noun
separate
- plural of separata
Verb
separate
- inflection of separare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Latin
Pronunciation
Verb
sēparāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of sēparō
References
- “separate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “separate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- separate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
separate
- definite singular of separat
- plural of separat
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
separate
- definite singular of separat
- plural of separat
Spanish
Verb
separate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of separar combined with te