Usually means: To set or keep apart.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word separate:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. separate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. separate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. separate: Collins English Dictionary
  4. separate: Vocabulary.com
  5. Separate, separate: Wordnik
  6. separate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. separate: Wiktionary
  8. separate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. separate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. separate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. separate: Dictionary.com
  12. separate (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. separate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Separate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Separate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. separate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. separate: Rhymezone
  18. Separate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. separate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. separate: Free Dictionary
  21. separate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. separate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. separate: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. separate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. separate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. separate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. separate: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. separate, separate: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. SEPARATE: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
adjective:  (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
verb:  (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
verb:  (transitive) To disunite from a group or mass; to disconnect.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
verb:  (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
verb:  (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
noun:  (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially articles of clothing such as blouses, skirts, jackets, and pants.
noun:  (bibliography) A printing of an article from a periodical as its own distinct publication and distributed independently, often with different page numbers.

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