PARTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parted mean? 

• PARTED (adjective)
  The adjective PARTED has 1 sense:

1. having a margin incised almost to the base so as to create distinct divisions or lobes

  Familiarity information: PARTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a margin incised almost to the base so as to create distinct divisions or lobes

Similar:

compound (composed of more than one part)

 Context examples 

When we parted, she said: "Good-bye, cousin Jane Eyre; I wish you well: you have some sense."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Twelve years were gone since they had parted, and each presented a somewhat different person from what the other had imagined.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

"Shall we see you this evening, mon frere?" asked Amy, as they parted at her aunt's door.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Having parted from my friend, I determined to visit some remote spot of Scotland and finish my work in solitude.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

'Caro mio,' quoth she when last we parted, 'I shall be near thee in the wars, and thy danger will be my danger.'

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Selfishly dear as she had long been to Lady Bertram, she could not be parted with willingly by her.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Oh! I must tell you, that just after we parted yesterday, I saw a young man looking at you so earnestly—I am sure he is in love with you.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The kind soul promised, and we both of us kissed the keyhole with the greatest affection—I patted it with my hand, I recollect, as if it had been her honest face—and parted.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My dearest Lucy,—I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened since we parted at the railway station at Whitby.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“That’s all right,” said Lestrade, as we parted.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)