See Also: divorce 1, noun(dictionary)
Divorce(medicine)
divorce(encyclopedia)
divorce(2)(dictionary)
divorce(1)(dictionary)
Divorce(law)
Divorce Agreement(law)
ABSOLUTE DIVORCE:(law)
divorce 2, verb(dictionary)
GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE(law)

divorce 1, noun (oh)



[Date: 1300-1400; Language: French; Origin: Latin divertere 'to divert, leave one's husband']
[U and C] the legal ending of a marriage
-see also separation separation
::Why doesn't she get a divorce ?
::In Britain, one in three marriages ends in divorce .
file/sue/petition for divorce
(=start the legal divorce process)
::His wife had threatened to start divorce proceedings .
::the rise in the divorce rate
::She received the house as part of the divorce settlement (=the amount of money, property etc each person receives in a divorce case) .
::The Act extended the grounds (=legal reasons) for divorce .
[C usually singular] formal the fact of separating two related things
divorce between
::the divorce between theory and method