English Explanatory Dictionary

department

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A part, portion, or subdivision.
  2. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
  3. A specified aspect or quality.
  4. A subdivision of an organization.
  5. One of the principal divisions of executive government
  6. One of the divisions of instructions
  7. A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts into which the country is divided for governmental purposes, similar to a county in the UK and in the USA. France is composed of 101 départements organized in 18 régions, each department is divided into arrondissements, in turn divided into cantons.
  8. A military subdivision of a country
  9. Act of departing; departure.

Pronunciation

/dɪˈpɑːtm(ə)nt/ /dɪˈpɑɹtmənt/ en-us-department.ogg /dɪˈpɐːtm(ə)nt/ /dəˈpɐːtm(ə)nt/

Word forms

department departments

Etymology

From Middle English departement (“ceasing, end”), from Middle French département. Later senses borrowed from Modern French département. Doublet of département.

Synonyms

province specialty ministry

Related words

province state

Derived words

cabinet department casualty department departmental departmentally departmentation departmentize Department of Redundancy Department department store departmentwide emergency department fire department interdepartmental multidepartment police department state department subdepartment superdepartment treasury department trouser department

Translations

Afrikaans: departement Afrikaans: afdeling Albanian: departament Arabic: قِسْم Armenian: բաժին Armenian: ֆակուլտետ Azerbaijani: şöbə Bashkir: бүлек Belarusian: аддзе́л Belarusian: дэпарта́мент Bengali: বিভাগ Bulgarian: отде́л Bulgarian: отделе́ние Burmese: ဌာန Chinese Cantonese: 部門 /部门 Chinese Cantonese: 部 Chinese Cantonese: 系 Chinese Mandarin: 部門 /部门 Chinese Mandarin: 部 Chinese Mandarin: 系 Czech: oddělení Danish: departement Danish: ministerium Danish: institut Danish: fagområde Dutch: afdeling Dutch: departement Esperanto: fako Estonian: osakond Finnish: ministeriö Finnish: osasto Finnish: yksikkö Finnish: laitos French: ministère Georgian: განყოფილება Georgian: დეპარტამენტი German: Abteilung Greek: τμήμα Greek: διεύθυνση Greek: κλάδος Greek: υπηρεσία Haitian Creole: depatman Hebrew: מַחְלָקָה Hindi: विभाग Hindi: अनुभाग Hungarian: osztály Hungarian: részleg Hungarian: szakosztály Hungarian: minisztérium Hungarian: tanszék Indonesian: departemen Italian: dipartimento Italian: facoltà Italian: reparto Japanese: 局 Japanese: 部門 Japanese: 学部 Kazakh: бөлім Khmer: ការិយាល័យ Korean: 부서 Korean: 학과 Kyrgyz: бөлүм Lao: ພະແນກ Lao: ພາກວິຊາ Latvian: nodaļa Latvian: daļa Lithuanian: skyrius Macedonian: оддел Macedonian: одделение Malayalam: വകുപ്പ് Mòcheno: omt Mongolian: хэлтэс
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