- [uncountable, countable] the act or occasion of leaving a person or place
- She was already dreading the moment of parting.
- We had a tearful parting at the airport.
Extra Examples- It was an amicable parting and we greatly value the years we spent together.
- The divorce was a bitter parting that cost him financially as well as emotionally.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- final
- amicable
- bitter
- …
- the moment of parting
- a/the parting of the ways
- (British English) (North American English part)[countable] a line on a person’s head where the hair is divided with a comb
- a side/centre parting
- [uncountable, countable] the act or result of dividing something into parts
- the parting of the clouds
- The boat made a parting through the duckweed.
Idioms
See parting in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarya/the parting of the ways
- a point at which two people or groups of people decide to separate
- These events led to a final parting of the ways.
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