SECESSION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Formal separation from an alliance or federation

Synonyms:

secession; withdrawal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("secession" is a kind of...):

separation (the act of dividing or disconnecting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "secession"):

breakaway; breaking away (the act of breaking away or withdrawing from)

Derivation:

secede (withdraw from an organization or communion)

Meaning:

The withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Instance hypernyms:

separation (the act of dividing or disconnecting)

Meaning:

An Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s

Synonyms:

secession; sezession

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("secession" is a kind of...):

school (a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers)

art movement; artistic movement (a group of artists who agree on general principles)