divorce: meaning and words from its letters
7 letters · 13 letter points · starts with D · ends with E
Meaning of divorce
noun
- countable, uncountable
The legal dissolution of a marriage.
Example: Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene.
- countable, uncountable
A separation of connected things.
Example: The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines.
- countable, uncountable
The separation of a bonded pair of animals.
- countable, obsolete, uncountable
That which separates.
Listed forms: divorces.
Source: Wiktionary — divorce.
verb
- transitive
To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.
Example: A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot divorce them.
- transitive
To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way.
Example: Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful.
- intransitive
To obtain a legal divorce.
Example: Edna and Simon divorced last year; he got the house, and she retained the business.
- transitive
To separate something that was connected.
Example: The radical group voted to divorce itself from the main faction and start an independent movement.
Listed forms: divorces, divorcing, divorced.
Source: Wiktionary — divorce.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for divorce.
noun
the legal dissolution of a marriage
verb
part; cease or break association with
verb
get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage
- split up
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is divorce in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of divorce
D(2) + I(1) + V(4) + O(1) + R(1) + C(3) + E(1) = 13 points.
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Anagrams of divorce
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from divorce
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