PARTITION


Meaning of PARTITION in English

(~s, ~ing, ~ed)

1.

A ~ is a wall or screen that separates one part of a room or vehicle from another.

...new offices divided only by glass ~s...

N-COUNT

2.

If you ~ a room, you separate one part of it from another by means of a ~.

Bedrooms have again been created by ~ing a single larger room...

He sat on the two-seater sofa in the ~ed office.

VERB: V n, V-ed

3.

If a country is ~ed, it is divided into two or more independent countries.

Korea was ~ed in 1945...

Britain was accused of trying to ~ the country ‘because of historic enmity’...

The island has been ~ed since the mid-seventies.

VERB: be V-ed, V n, V-ed

Partition is also a noun.

...fighting which followed the ~ of India.

N-UNCOUNT: oft N of n

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