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# depart

«depart» in Mova's school dictionary: **To leave, especially to start a journey** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (depart, departs, departed, departing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) To leave, especially to start a journey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depart/#m1)

2) depart from: to do something different from what is usual or planned. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depart/#m2)

3) (euphemism) the departed: people who have died. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depart/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In travel and time problems: "the train departs at 9:40 and arrives at 11:05". Departure boards at stations and airports. Phrases: depart from, departure time, the dear departed (euphemism).

### examples

- The train departs at 9:40. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depart/#x1)
- The bus departed from the station late. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depart/#x2)
- Flights depart from gate 12. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depart/#x3)
- If the train departs at 2:15 and takes 50 minutes, when does it arrive? At 3:05. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depart/#x4)
- We departed early to beat the traffic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depart/#x5)
- (euphemism) We remember our dear departed grandad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depart/#x6)
- I also love her, but tomorrow I depart. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depart/#x7)

### note

Noun: departure. Opposite: arrive (arrival). Formal; everyday word: "leave". Maths: journey time = arrival time − departure time. "Departed" about a person is a soft way of saying "dead".

### In the corpora

- ["Departed this life" means died; it is old-fashioned and found on old gravestones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/8/)
- ["The departed" means the dead person or the dead people; it is polite.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/2-death-official-and-slang/6/)
- ["The dearly departed" means the dead; it is polite and is sometimes used jokingly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/3-death-and-feeling-poorly/8/)
- [And they took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.364/)
- [And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.750/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «depart» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/depart/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.