separate
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5.1
- adjective
- /ˈsɛpəˌreɪt/
- Offensive
:
segregado
- African-American children were forced to attend separate schools, which were often overcrowded and run-down.
- separate but equal
- separate schools
- separate facilities
Kelly, please show me chapter and verse where it says blacks and whites must be separate.
- Kelly, please show me chapter and verse where it says blacks and whites must be separate.
- And they like when the when the girl is not ovulating but menstruating, they have to sleep in a whole separate bed.
- So I think, I mean, the solution to this may be to have separate trans leagues for, for sports where, you know, strength is, is a component.
- A lot of other places in the South there too, by the way, separate from white life, with churches and fraternal orders and newspapers and schools.
Examples
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The children attended separate schools due to the district's policies on racial segregation.
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Yet that grouping only makes them more separate from the rest of the student body.
Academic text (1990) -
But we need separate rooms, really.
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For the most part, life was really quite separate between between whites and others.
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The private school used for the current study had separate male and female physical education time slots.
Academic text (2011) -
In the South, African-American and white citizens often lived in separate communities during the 1950s.
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Many religions encourage followers to have separate practices and traditions distinct from one another.
Synonyms
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1.0
Not the same as another person or thing
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3.5
Clearly different from others
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4.2
Divided into opposing parts within a group
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1.7
Different from other people or things
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5.8
Separated from other people because of race, religion or other differences
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3.8
Kept apart from others to stop a disease from spreading
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6.7
Feeling separate from other people or different from them
Not together with other people, kept apart from them
Found in separate areas as groups that are not connected
To keep groups or information separate so they do not share knowledge
Split into groups that do not agree
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
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6.6
To pick out useful people or things from those that are not
How Segregated
Surface Forms
Etymology
Separate comes from the Latin separare, where se- means 'apart' and the rest means 'part'. So separate can describe people or places that are kept 'apart' by rules or customs, which is why it is used for divisions by race, sex, class, or religion.