Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: separation
IPA transcription: [s,ɛpɚ'eɪʃən]
Pronunciations of separation
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: separation
    Meaning: the state of lacking unity
  • Synonyms: separation, breakup, detachment
    Meaning: coming apart
  • Synonyms: interval, separation
    Meaning: the distance between things; "fragile items require separation and cushioning"
  • Synonyms: separation
    Meaning: sorting one thing from others; "the separation of wheat from chaff"; "the separation of mail by postal zones"
  • Synonyms: separation
    Meaning: the social act of separating or parting company; "the separation of church and state"
Usage examples
  • Thus a complete separation is effected.
  • Our separation did not involve its destruction.
  • There was no longer any sense of separation or estrangement between them.
  • The separation of it often requires great attention, accuracy, and subtilty.
  • But for the people of God separation from God is the greatest torment of all.
  • The years that followed this separation were years of constant labor for Dickens.
  • I have not, since the day of our separation, suffered or done any thing considerable.
  • Reduced to its barest, crudest terms, the proposition of magnetic separation is simplicity itself.
  • Such a separation could exist only if the personal attitudes ran their course in a world by themselves.
  • The separation was as great to him as if they had marched with weapons of flame and banners of sunlight.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Presidency of James Madison, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Schizophrenia, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Louis Slotin, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Battle of the Somme, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Murder of James Bulger, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Wife selling (English custom), License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Raney nickel, License CC BY-SA 4.0
7. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Binary star, License CC BY-SA 4.0
8. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Thomas Jefferson, License CC BY-SA 4.0
9. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Introduction to evolution, License CC BY-SA 4.0