Standard Lemma guide

apart

adj · adv · postp · 14 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • Received-Pronunciation: /əˈpɑːt/
  • General-American: /əˈpɑɹt/
  • General-American: ə-pärt′
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)t
  • CMU ARPABET: AH0 P AA1 R T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Exceptional, distinct.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

Examples

  • In aristocracies, servants are a class apart.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Having been taken apart; disassembled, in pieces.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Separate, on the side.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

adv

Meaning 4

Placed separately (in regard to space or time).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

adv

Meaning 5

Separately, exclusively, not together.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Consider the two propositions apart.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: independently, separately, absolutely, abstractedly, abstractly, apart, discretely, individually, properly, serely, severally, singly, sunderling, sunderly, together, uniquely

Antonyms: none provided

6

adv

Meaning 6

In or into two or more parts.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • We took the computer apart and put it back together.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: asunder, in twain, apart, half and half, in sunder, piecemeal

Antonyms: none provided

7

adv

Meaning 7

To the side; aside.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

postp

Meaning 8

Excluded from consideration.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Joking apart, what do you think?

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: aside

Antonyms: none provided

9

adverb

Meaning 9

not taken into account or excluded from consideration

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • these problems apart, the country is doing well
  • all joking aside, I think you're crazy

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: aside

Antonyms: none provided

10

adverb

Meaning 10

into parts or pieces

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he took his father's watch apart
  • split apart
  • torn asunder

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: asunder

Antonyms: none provided

11

adverb

Meaning 11

separated or at a distance in place or position or time

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • These towns are many miles apart
  • stood with his legs apart
  • born two years apart

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

adverb

Meaning 12

one from the other

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • people can't tell the twins apart

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

adverb

Meaning 13

placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • had a feeling of being set apart
  • quality sets it apart
  • a day set aside for relaxing

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: aside

Antonyms: none provided

14

adverb

Meaning 14

away from another or others

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • they grew apart over the years
  • kept apart from the group out of shyness
  • decided to live apart

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From Middle English apart, aparte, a-part, a part, from Anglo-Norman a part, from Latin ad partem (“to the side”).

Across languages

Translations

99 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: настрана (nastrana) — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Bulgarian: отделно (otdelno) — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Catalan: a part — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Chinese Mandarin: 分離地 /分离地 (fēnlí de) — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Chinese Mandarin: 分別 /分别 (fēnbié) — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Chinese Mandarin: 四分五裂 (sìfēnwǔliè) — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Dutch: apart — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Finnish: syrjässä — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Finnish: syrjään — separately, in regard to space or company
  • French: séparé — separately, in regard to space or company
  • French: séparément — separately, in regard to space or company
  • French: à part — separately, in regard to space or company
  • German: getrennt — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Ancient Greek: νόσφι (nósphi) — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Hungarian: külön — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Hungarian: elkülönülve — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Hungarian: elkülönülten — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Indonesian: terlepas — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Irish: ar leith — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Italian: separatamente — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Japanese: 別々に (betsubetsu ni) — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Kashubian: apart — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Latin: seorsum — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Latin: segregatim — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Macedonian: одделно (oddelno) — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Māori: tātahi — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Old English: sundor — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Plautdietsch: enaunda — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Plautdietsch: uteneen — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Polish: osobno — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Portuguese: à parte — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Russian: отде́льно (otdélʹno) — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Russian: врозь (vrozʹ) — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Russian: по́рознь (póroznʹ) — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Russian: разде́льно (razdélʹno) — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Scottish Gaelic: air leth — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Sicilian: sparti — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Spanish: aparte — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Spanish: separadamente — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Tocharian B: waiptār — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Ukrainian: окре́мо (okrémo) — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Ukrainian: осторонь (ostoronʹ) — separately, in regard to space or company
  • Bulgarian: поотделно (pootdelno) — in a state of separation
  • Esperanto: aparte — in a state of separation
  • Finnish: erillään — in a state of separation
  • Finnish: erilleen — in a state of separation
  • Finnish: erikseen — in a state of separation
  • Hungarian: külön-külön — in a state of separation
  • Hungarian: különválasztva — in a state of separation
  • Hungarian: elkülönítve — in a state of separation
  • Hungarian: egyenként — in a state of separation
  • Indonesian: terlepas — in a state of separation
  • Italian: separatamente — in a state of separation
  • Kashubian: apart — in a state of separation
  • Latin: seorsum — in a state of separation
  • Latin: segregatim — in a state of separation
  • Portuguese: à parte — in a state of separation
  • Portuguese: afastado — in a state of separation
  • Russian: отде́льно (otdélʹno) — in a state of separation
  • Russian: обосо́бленно (obosóblenno) — in a state of separation
  • Scottish Gaelic: air leth — in a state of separation
  • Sicilian: sparti — in a state of separation
  • Ukrainian: окре́мо (okrémo) — in a state of separation
  • Bulgarian: настрана (nastrana) — aside; away
  • Catalan: a part — aside; away
  • Finnish: syrjässä — aside; away
  • Finnish: syrjään — aside; away
  • German: beiseite — aside; away
  • Hungarian: félretéve — aside; away
  • Hungarian: félre — aside; away
  • Kashubian: apart — aside; away
  • Latin: segregatim — aside; away
  • Portuguese: à parte — aside; away
  • Portuguese: de lado — aside; away
  • Portuguese: distante — aside; away
  • Russian: прочь (pročʹ) — aside; away
  • Russian: вон (von) — aside; away
  • Russian: доло́й (dolój) — aside; away
  • Russian: в сто́рону (v stóronu) — aside; away
  • Scottish Gaelic: air leth — aside; away
  • Sicilian: sparti — aside; away
  • Sicilian: di latu — aside; away
  • Spanish: aparte — aside; away
  • Finnish: erillään — in two or more parts; asunder
  • Finnish: erilleen — in two or more parts; asunder
  • French: en morceaux — in two or more parts; asunder
  • French: en pièces — in two or more parts; asunder
  • German: entzwei — in two or more parts; asunder
  • German: in Stücke — in two or more parts; asunder
  • Hungarian: szét- — in two or more parts; asunder
  • Italian: a pezzi — in two or more parts; asunder
  • Japanese: ばらばらに (barabara ni) — in two or more parts; asunder
  • Latin: segregatim — in two or more parts; asunder
  • Russian: на ча́сти (na části) — in two or more parts; asunder
  • Russian: на куски́ (na kuskí) — in two or more parts; asunder
  • Sanskrit: वि (vi) — in two or more parts; asunder
  • Sicilian: 'n 'ui — in two or more parts; asunder
  • Sicilian: a pizzuḍḍi — in two or more parts; asunder
  • Swedish: isär — in two or more parts; asunder
Real reading context

apart in complete knowledge articles