GOING AWAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does going away mean? 

• GOING AWAY (noun)
  The noun GOING AWAY has 1 sense:

1. the act of departing

  Familiarity information: GOING AWAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOING AWAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of departing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

departure; going; going away; leaving

Hypernyms ("going away" is a kind of...):

act; deed; human action; human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)

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

breaking away (departing hastily)

farewell; leave; leave-taking; parting (the act of departing politely)

French leave (an abrupt and unannounced departure (without saying farewell))

disappearance; disappearing (the act of leaving secretly or without explanation)

withdrawal (the act of withdrawing)

sailing (the departure of a vessel from a port)

boarding; embarkation; embarkment (the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft)

exit (the act of going out)

despatch; dispatch; shipment (the act of sending off something)

takeoff (a departure; especially of airplanes)

 Context examples 

“Listen! Are you going away soon?” “Amigoarawaysoo?” I repeated.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was a gentleman's carriage, a curricle, but only coming round from the stable-yard to the front door; somebody must be going away.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Charles had been born since Fanny's going away, but Tom she had often helped to nurse, and now felt a particular pleasure in seeing again.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Bhaer was going away, he only cared for her as a friend, it was all a mistake, and the sooner it was over the better.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I was sent to Lowood to get an education; and it would be of no use going away until I have attained that object.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I do not at all know; but I heard nothing of his going away when I was at Netherfield.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Three Eagles was going away on a trip up the Mackenzie to the Great Slave Lake.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Once, he mentioned that he was going away, back to the South Seas, and, once, she asked him to forgive her having come to him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then Oz got into the basket and said to all the people in a loud voice: I am now going away to make a visit.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

There was intimacy between them, and Mr. Cole had heard from Mr. Elton since his going away.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)