Definition of Apart

1. Adjective. Remote and separate physically or socially. "An obscure village"

Exact synonyms: Isolated, Obscure
Similar to: Unconnected

2. Adverb. Separated or at a distance in place or position or time. "Born two years apart"

3. Adjective. Having characteristics not shared by others. "Scientists felt they were a group apart"
Similar to: Separate

4. Adverb. Not taken into account or excluded from consideration. "All joking aside, I think you're crazy"
Exact synonyms: Aside

5. Adverb. Away from another or others. "Decided to live apart"

6. Adverb. Placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose. "A day set aside for relaxing"
Exact synonyms: Aside

7. Adverb. One from the other. "People can't tell the twins apart"

8. Adverb. Into parts or pieces. "Torn asunder"
Exact synonyms: Asunder

Definition of Apart

1. adv. Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside.

Definition of Apart

1. Adverb. Separately, in regard to space or company; in a state of separation as to place; aside. ¹

2. Adverb. In a state of separation, of exclusion, or of distinction, as to purpose, use, or character, or as a matter of thought; separately; independently ¹

3. Adverb. Aside; away. ¹

4. Adverb. In two or more parts; asunder; to piece ¹

5. Preposition. (context: following its objective complement) apart from. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Apart

1. not together [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apart

apanthropinizations
apanthropy
apantomancy
apar
apara
aparalytic
aparathyreosis
aparejo
aparejoes
aparejos
apareon
aparithmesis
apars
apart (current term)
apart(p)
apart from
apartheid
apartheidlike
apartheids
aparthotel
apartment
apartment building
apartment buildings
apartment complex
apartment complexes
apartment house
apartmental
apartmentlike

Literary usage of Apart

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David ( Hume (1890)
"... a positive nature apart from relation. triangularity (we must suppose) simply as a feeling. It is only the resemblance between the triangularity in this ..."

2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1836)
"In such obscurity therefore, variety and confused mixture of symptômes, causes, how difficult a tiling is it to treat of several kinds apart ; to make any ..."

3. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1887)
"If the trees are to be apart— 10 feet—rows should be 8 feet 8 inches apart- 12 feet^rows should be --10 feet 2í inches apart- H feet—rows should be 12 feet ..."

4. Twenty-five Village Sermons by Charles Kingsley (1854)
"It is a high peaked hill, standing apart from all the hills around it, with a small smooth space of ground upon the top, very fit, from its height and its ..."

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