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# departure

«departure» in Mova's school dictionary: **The act of leaving a place, especially to begin a journey** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a departure, departures; also uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The act of leaving a place, especially to begin a journey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/departure/#m1)

2) A train, bus or plane that is leaving (the departures board). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/departure/#m2)

3) (formal) A change from the usual way of doing something (a departure from tradition). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/departure/#m3)

4) (euphemism) Death. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/departure/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

Very common in timetable maths: departure time and arrival time — subtract to find the journey time. At airports and stations, «Departures» shows leaving flights and trains. Phrases: «departure time», «departure lounge», «point of departure», «a new departure».

### examples

- Our departure time is 7:30. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/departure/#x1)
- The departures board shows the next train. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/departure/#x2)
- Check in two hours before departure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/departure/#x3)
- The departure was 9:40 and the arrival 11:10, so the flight took 1 hour 30 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/departure/#x4)
- Wait in the departure lounge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/departure/#x5)
- This song is a departure from the band's usual style. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/departure/#x6)
- Many other ceremonies took place at my departure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/departure/#x7)

### note

Verb «depart». Opposite: arrival. In maths: journey time = arrival − departure; departure = arrival − journey time; count across the hour carefully (9:40 to 11:10 is 1 h 30 min).

### In the corpora

- [Départ means departure and arrivée means arrival; a train leaving at 14h05 and arriving at 16h50 takes 2 hours 45 minutes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/39-olympiad-decoding-a-short-french-text/20/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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