apart
separated or at a distance in place or position or time
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,753 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 10,379 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
adverb
- separated or at a distance in place or position or time These towns are many miles apartstood with his legs apart
- not taken into account or excluded from consideration also: aside these problems apart, the country is doing wellall joking aside, I think you're crazy
- away from another or others they grew apart over the yearskept apart from the group out of shyness
- placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose also: aside had a feeling of being set apartquality sets it apart
- one from the other people can't tell the twins apart
- into parts or pieces also: asunder he took his father's watch apartsplit apart
adjective
- remote and separate physically or socially also: isolated, obscure existed over the centuries as a world apartpreserved because they inhabited a place apart
- having characteristics not shared by others scientists felt they were a group apart
apart in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Yet set apart to be spared from death.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures · Daniel Defoe · Chapter 1
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He spread his feet apart and surveyed the scene.
The Riverman · Stewart Edward White · Chapter 1
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Their arms had slipped apart and they stood motionless, each seeking to distinguish the other’s face.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1
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She sat a little apart and talked to him in a voice soft enough to even exclude Lord Walderhurst.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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The aeronauts touched the water feet foremost at the same instant, and in half a minute they rose, not ten feet apart.
The Land of the Changing Sun · Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben · Chapter 1