noun
Meaning 1
The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
breakup
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
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/ˈbɹeɪk.ʌp/
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rhymes with -eɪkʌp
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noun
Meaning 2
The termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A loss of emotional control; a breakdown.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
The season during which winter ice covering bodies of water disintegrates; more generally, spring.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, Northern
Qualifier: Alaska
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dissolution
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: termination, ending, conclusion
Narrower terms: splitsville, annulment, invalidation
noun
Meaning 6
coming apart
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: separation, detachment
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change, alteration, modification
Narrower terms: rupture, breach, break, severance, rift, falling out
History
Etymology
Deverbal from break up.
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: բաժանում (bažanum) — the act of breaking up, disintegration, or division
- Finnish: särkeminen — the act of breaking up, disintegration, or division
- Finnish: hajottaminen — the act of breaking up, disintegration, or division
- Finnish: rikkominen — the act of breaking up, disintegration, or division
- Finnish: särkyminen — the act of breaking up, disintegration, or division
- Finnish: hajoaminen — the act of breaking up, disintegration, or division
- Finnish: rikkoutuminen — the act of breaking up, disintegration, or division
- German: Trennung — the act of breaking up, disintegration, or division
- Italian: spezzettamento — the act of breaking up, disintegration, or division
- Central Kurdish: بڕانەوە (brranewe) — the act of breaking up, disintegration, or division
- Marathi: वियोजन (viyojan) — the act of breaking up, disintegration, or division
- Marathi: विभागणी (vibhāgṇī) — the act of breaking up, disintegration, or division
- Portuguese: quebra — the act of breaking up, disintegration, or division
- Swedish: uppbrott — the act of breaking up, disintegration, or division
- Czech: rozchod — termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship
- Dutch: relatiebreuk — termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship
- Finnish: ero — termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship
- French: rupture — termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship
- German: Auflösung — termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship
- German: Beendigung — termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship
- German: Ende — termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship
- German: Trennung — termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship
- Italian: rottura — termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship
- Kapampangan: kawani — termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship
- Marathi: ब्रेकअप (brekap) — termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship
- Polish: rozstanie — termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship
- Portuguese: término — termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship
- Spanish: dischar — termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship
- Spanish: ruptura — termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship
- Turkish: ayrılık — termination of a friendship or a romantic relationship
- Woods Cree: ᒥᖪᐢᑲᒥᐣ — ice break-up season
- Woods Cree: mithoskamin — ice break-up season
- French: dégel — ice break-up season
- Ojibwe: minoskamin — ice break-up season
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