🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

离婚

Pronunciation / Transliteration: lí hūn

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Divorce/dɪˈvɔːs/
nounverbCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #1450 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"他们在多年的冲突后决定离婚。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The legal dissolution of a marriage.

    "After years of conflict, they decided to file for divorce."
As verb
  1. 1

    To legally dissolve one's marriage with someone.

    "They chose to divorce after realizing they had grown apart."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin word 'divortium', stemming from 'divertere' meaning 'to turn aside, separate'. It entered Middle English via Old French in the 14th century, initially denoting a legal separation of married persons and evolving over centuries to mean the formal dissolution of a marriage bond.

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