divorce

«divorce» in Mova's school dictionary: The legal ending of a marriage, so the husband and wife… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a divorce, divorces); verb (divorce, divorces, divorced, divorcing); adjective: divorced

meaning for a pupil

1) The legal ending of a marriage, so the husband and wife are no longer married. tree →

2) To end your marriage to someone by law. tree →

3) To separate two things completely (formal: you can't divorce sport from fun). tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life many children have parents who are divorced or separated; families can still love and care for children after a divorce. In health and well-being lessons pupils learn that divorce is never a child's fault, and that it is fine to feel sad or angry and to talk to someone. In stories it can be a change the character must get used to. Phrases: get a divorce, get divorced, divorced parents.

examples

• My parents got divorced when I was five. tree →
• A divorce is when a marriage ends by law. tree →
• After the divorce, I stay with Dad at weekends. tree →
• It is never the child's fault when parents divorce. tree →
• Lots of my friends have divorced parents. tree →
• They divorced but stayed good friends. tree →
• If your family changes, talk to someone you trust about how you feel. tree →
• The Voyvode waxed wroth, and demanded a divorce. tree →

note

Say «get divorced» or «divorce someone» (She divorced him); not «divorce with someone». «Separated» means living apart but still married; «divorced» means the marriage has legally ended.

In the corpora

• Separating means parents stop living together as a couple; it may lead to a divorce, but not always straight away.
• A divorce is the official legal end of a marriage, and "the divorce came through" means the court has finished it.
• A divorce can feel sad and also a relief, because a long, hard process is over.
• Remarrying means marrying again after a divorce or after a husband or wife has died.
• "Separated" means a married couple living apart, before or instead of a divorce.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «divorce» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.