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Definition
something that divides space, the act of dividing into parts, or a divided part- a movable partition can divide the ballroom into two smaller rooms
- partition a room off
- partition the country along ethnic lines
- the left partition is not as large as the right partition
- On the other side of a partition is a family with three children.Joy Kogawa -- Obasan
- Inside, it was partitioned into a kitchen and an eating room.Alexander Solzhenitsyn -- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- There were men—the rangers—crouching down behind the low partition.Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger
- The rats were fighting; they were trying to get at each other through the partition.George Orwell -- 1984
- The house inhabited by these emigrants has no internal partition or loft.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
- The oak partition shook with the concussion, and the place was filled with grey smoke.Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
- Chapter XVIII In a partitioned-off section of a saloon sat a man with a half dozen women, gleefully laughing, hovering about him.Stephen Crane -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
- Glass reached the clear partition just as it locked into the floor, slamming her hands against it.Kass Morgan -- The 100
- Don Quixote rose betimes, and bade adieu to his hosts by knocking at the partition of the other room.Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote
- He got up and approached the partition very gently, trying to look through.Henry James -- The American
- DEMETRIUS It is the wittiest partition that ever I heard discourse, my lord.William Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Kathy's eyes locked on to the sliding wooden partition that separated this teller from the others.Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun
- He maddened me particularly when he read aloud the psalms to himself behind his partition.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Notes from the Underground
- They crave partition of our lost king's land and wealth.Homer -- The Odyssey
- But there w as a partition wall blocking off the stairs and the elevator from the rest of the room.Margaret Peterson Haddix -- Uprising
- The Palestine issue was being debated now by the United Nations, and the Partition Plan would soon be voted upon.Chaim Potok -- The Chosen
partition = a structure (less substantial than a wall) that divides a room
partitioned = divided