Other forms: departures
A departure is the act or moment of leaving. Departure time, the departures board, delay the departure.
At an airport, departures is the whole half of the building for people leaving, against arrivals. Departure lounge and departure gate are the standard signs. It also means a change from what is usual: a departure from tradition, a radical departure. And it is a formal word for somebody leaving a job or a country: his departure was announced in a single sentence.
1noundepartureThe act or moment of leaving.
“Please arrive at the airport two hours before departure.”
2nounchangeA change from what is usual.
“The whole design is a departure from anything they had done.”
departure is a leaving, or a change.
Old French departeure comes from departir, to divide or separate — de- plus partir, to part. A departure was originally a parting, and the French partir still means simply to leave.
Old French
deporteure — departure; figuratively, death
English, today
departure
From Old French deporteure (“departure; figuratively, death”). by surface analysis, depart + -ure.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA