noun
Meaning 1
A divorced person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
divorcee
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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UK: /dɪvɔːˈsiː/
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noun
Meaning 2
a divorced woman or a woman who is separated from her husband
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: grass widow
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: woman, adult female
Narrower terms: Simpson, Mrs. Simpson, Wallis Warfield Simpson, Wallis Warfield Windsor, Duchess of Windsor
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French divorcée, equivalent to divorce + -ee.
Across languages
Translations
64 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: طَلِيق (ṭalīq) — divorced person
- Arabic: طَلِيقَة (ṭalīqa) — divorced person
- Belarusian: разве́дзены (razvjédzjeny) — divorced person
- Belarusian: разве́дзеная (razvjédzjenaja) — divorced person
- Bulgarian: разве́ден (razvéden) — divorced person
- Bulgarian: разве́дена (razvédena) — divorced person
- Burmese: တစ်ခုလပ် (tachku.lap) — divorced person
- Chinese Mandarin: 離婚者 /离婚者 (líhūnzhě) — divorced person
- Czech: rozvedený — divorced person
- Czech: rozvedená — divorced person
- Finnish: eronnut — divorced person
- French: divorcé — divorced person
- French: divorcée — divorced person
- German: Geschiedener — divorced person
- German: Geschiedene — divorced person
- Greek: διαζευγμένος (diazevgménos) — divorced person
- Greek: διαζευγμένη (diazevgméni) — divorced person
- Hebrew: גרוש \ גָּרוּשׁ (garúsh) — divorced person
- Hebrew: גרושה \ גְּרוּשָׁה (grushá) — divorced person
- Hungarian: elvált személy — divorced person
- Icelandic: fráskilinn karlmaður — divorced person
- Italian: divorziato — divorced person
- Italian: divorziata — divorced person
- Japanese: 離婚した男 (rikon shita otoko) — divorced person
- Japanese: 離婚した女 (rikon shita onna) — divorced person
- Korean: 이혼남 (ihonnam) — divorced person
- Korean: 리혼남 (rihonnam) — divorced person
- Korean: 이혼녀 (ihonnyeo) — divorced person
- Korean: 리혼녀 (rihonnyeo) — divorced person
- Latin: divortiatus — divorced person
- Latin: divortiata — divorced person
- Macedonian: разведен (razveden) — divorced person
- Macedonian: разведена (razvedena) — divorced person
- Macedonian: разве́деник (razvédenik) — divorced person
- Polish: rozwodnik — divorced person
- Polish: rozwódka — divorced person
- Portuguese: divorciado — divorced person
- Portuguese: divorciada — divorced person
- Russian: разведённый (razvedjónnyj) — divorced person
- Russian: разведённая (razvedjónnaja) — divorced person
- Serbo-Croatian: разведен — divorced person
- Serbo-Croatian: разведена — divorced person
- Serbo-Croatian: растављен — divorced person
- Serbo-Croatian: растављена — divorced person
- Serbo-Croatian: razveden — divorced person
- Serbo-Croatian: razvedena — divorced person
- Serbo-Croatian: rastavljen — divorced person
- Serbo-Croatian: rastavljena — divorced person
- Slovak: rozvedený — divorced person
- Slovak: rozvedená — divorced person
- Slovene: ločen — divorced person
- Slovene: ločena — divorced person
- Spanish: divorciado — divorced person
- Spanish: divorciada — divorced person
- Swahili: mtalaka — divorced person
- Tausug: bituanan — divorced person
- Ukrainian: розлу́чений (rozlúčenyj) — divorced person
- Ukrainian: розлу́чена (rozlúčena) — divorced person
- Ukrainian: розве́дений (rozvédenyj) — divorced person
- Ukrainian: розве́дена (rozvédena) — divorced person
- Vietnamese: người ly dị vợ — divorced person
- Vietnamese: người ly dị chồng — divorced person
- Yiddish: גרוש (goresh) — divorced person
- Yiddish: גרושה (grushe) — divorced person