All 6 Uses
partition
in
Jasmine, by Bharati Mukherjee
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- God is cruel to partition the country, she said, to uproot our family from a city like Lahore where we had lived for centuries, and fling us to a village of flaky mud huts.†
p. 41.1
- Mataji, my mother, couldn't forget the Partition Riots.†
p. 41.4
- He refused to speak Hindi as well, considering it the language of Gandhi, the man who had approved the partition of Punjab and the slaughter of millions.†
p. 42.6 *
- I WAS born eighteen years after the Partition Riots.†
p. 44.1
- Have you forgotten what the Muslims did to Sikhs in Partition?†
p. 66.2
- Behind a dry-wall partition I heard some rattling and scratching.†
p. 162.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(partition) to divide something into parts; or a divider itself, or one of the sections created
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)