division
/dɪˈvɪʒn̩/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.86 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "I've got ten divisions to do for my homework."
- "Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta."
- "“Woke-ism, multiculturalism, all the -isms — they’re not who America is. They distort our glorious founding and what this country is all about. Our enemies stoke these divisions because they know they make us weaker,” he wrote Tuesday. […] In a July 2020 unveiling of a report from his “Commission on Unalienable Rights” that purported that “more rights does not necessarily mean more justice,” Pompeo fanned flames of division stoked by Trump, warning that “the very core of what it means to be an American, indeed the American way of life itself, is under attack” amid nationwide protests for racial justice and against police brutality."
- "The House of Commons has voted to approve the third reading of the bill without a division. The bill will now progress to the House of Lords."
Etymology
PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English divisioun, from Old French division, from Latin dīvīsiō, dīvīsiōnem, noun of process form from perfect passive participle dīvīsus (“divided”), from dīvidō (“divide”). Doublet of divisio.
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Usage
- Uncountable
- Countable
- British usage
- Australian usage