1 [U,C] the legal ending of a marriage:
The marriage ended in divorce in 1996. * an increase in the divorce rate (= the number of divorces in a year) * They have agreed to get a divorce. * Divorce proceedings (= the legal process of divorce) started today. * Bella wants a divorce. * He remarried after a divorce from his first wife, Kate. * She told him she was filing for divorce.
compareSEPARATION
2 [C] (formal) ~ (between A and B) a separation; the ending of a relationship between two things:
the divorce between religion and science
Part of speech: verb
1 to end your marriage to sb legally:
[VN] They're getting divorced. * She's divorcing her husband. * [V] I'd heard they're divorcing.
2 [VN] [oftenpassive] (formal) ~ sb/sth from sth to separate, a person, an idea, a subject, etc. from sth; to keep two things separate:
They believed that art should be divorced from politics. * When he was depressed, he felt utterly divorced from reality.
Part of speech: noun
(AmE) a man whose marriage has been legally ended
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