PARTING


Meaning of PARTING in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ pɑ:(r)tɪŋ ]

( partings)

1.

Parting is the act of leaving a particular person or place. A parting is an occasion when this happens.

It was a dreadfully emotional parting.

N-VAR

2.

Your parting words or actions are the things that you say or do as you are leaving a place or person.

Her parting words left him feeling empty and alone.

ADJ : ADJ n

3.

The parting in someone’s hair is the line running from the front to the back of their head where their hair lies in different directions. ( BRIT; in AM, use part )

N-COUNT

4.

When there is a parting of the ways , two or more people or groups of people stop working together or travelling together.

...a negotiated parting of the ways for the three Baltic republics.

PHRASE

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