Partition: meaning, example and synonyms
Partitionv. To divide something into separate parts or sections.
Example
After the river changed course, officials had to partition the farmland again, since the old boundary now ran through the middle of the water.
- Part of speech
- verb
- Synonyms
- divide, separate, split, segment
- Antonyms
- unite, join, combine, merge
- Memory tip
- Partition = make parts: a wall that divides a room into parts.
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Check yourself: Partition in context
To reduce noise in the open office, the company decided to ______ the floor into small rooms for focused work.
Answer: partition. Dividing a floor into rooms is to partition it. Impart, evince and tally mean to pass on, to show and to match.
After the old estate was sold, the new owners ______ the land into twelve lots, each with its own access road.
Answer: partitioned. Splitting land into twelve lots is dividing it into parts. Precluded, subsided and corroborated don't describe dividing land.