DEPARTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does departed mean? 

• DEPARTED (noun)
  The noun DEPARTED has 1 sense:

1. someone who is no longer alive

  Familiarity information: DEPARTED used as a noun is very rare.

• DEPARTED (adjective)
  The adjective DEPARTED has 2 senses:

1. well in the past; former

2. dead

  Familiarity information: DEPARTED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPARTED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who is no longer alive

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

dead person; dead soul; deceased; deceased person; decedent; departed

Context example:

I wonder what the dead person would have done

Hypernyms ("departed" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "departed"):

infernal (an inhabitant of Hell)

living dead; zombi; zombie (a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force)

Instance hyponyms:

Lazarus (the person who Jesus raised from the dead after four days in the tomb; this miracle caused the enemies of Jesus to begin the plan to put him to death)

Holonyms ("departed" is a member of...):

dead (people who are no longer living)

Derivation:

departed (dead)

• DEPARTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Well in the past; former

Synonyms:

bygone; bypast; departed; foregone; gone

Context example:

relics of a departed era

Similar:

past (earlier than the present time; no longer current)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Dead

Synonyms:

asleep; at peace; at rest; deceased; departed; gone

Context example:

our dear departed friend

Similar:

dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)

Domain usage:

euphemism (an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh)

Derivation:

departed (someone who is no longer alive)

 Context examples 

At last, when you had all formed your inevitable and totally erroneous conclusions, you departed for the hotel, and I was left alone.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This had been strong upon him when he pulled in to the bank, and it had not departed from him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I did exactly what he indicated, and waited until the other clerks had departed.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For years she had kissed him only when he returned from voyages or departed on voyages.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But, as time wore on, this shadowy prospect faded, and departed from me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But scarcely had the cheer of its light departed, than he went into camp.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

His tale had occupied the whole day, and the sun was upon the verge of the horizon when he departed.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Presently the landlady appeared with the tray, laid it down upon a chair beside the closed door, and then, treading heavily, departed.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After that, Buzz Aldrin departed the spacecraft and stepped on the moon 19 minutes later.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

New Horizons obtained a series of these backlit images as it departed from Pluto on July 14, 2015.

(Pluto’s Haze Varies in Brightness, NASA)