SECESSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Secession mean? 

• SECESSION (noun)
  The noun SECESSION has 3 senses:

1. an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s

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

3. formal separation from an alliance or federation

  Familiarity information: SECESSION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECESSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

secession; sezession

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)

Sense 2

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)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Formal separation from an alliance or federation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

secession; withdrawal

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)

 Context examples 

Mr. Yates, who was trying to make himself agreeable to Julia, found her gloom less impenetrable on any topic than that of his regret at her secession from their company; and Mr. Rushworth, having only his own part and his own dress in his head, had soon talked away all that could be said of either.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)