divorce
/dɪˈvoɹs/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.36 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene."
- "Kate Merrill: Do you ever regret it, Liz? Liz Frances: The divorce? Not as much as I regret the marriage."
- "The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines."
- "The great trick of online retail has been to get us to do more shopping while thinking less about it – thinking less, in particular, about how our purchases reach our homes. This divorce of a product from its voyage to us is perhaps the thing that Amazon has sold us most successfully"
- "To make divorce of their incorporate league"
- "Go with me like good angels to my end; / And as the long divorce of steel falls on me, / Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice, / And lift my soul to heaven. Lead on, o' God's name."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Old French
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /dɪˈvoɹs/
- British English: /dɪˈvɔːs/