[ UK /ɐpˈɑːt/ ]
[ US /əˈpɑɹt/ ]
ADVERB
  1. one from the other
    people can't tell the twins apart
  2. not taken into account or excluded from consideration
    these problems apart, the country is doing well
    all joking aside, I think you're crazy
  3. away from another or others
    kept apart from the group out of shyness
    decided to live apart
    they grew apart over the years
  4. separated or at a distance in place or position or time
    stood with his legs apart
    These towns are many miles apart
    born two years apart
  5. into parts or pieces
    he took his father's watch apart
    torn asunder
    split apart
  6. placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose
    a day set aside for relaxing
    quality sets it apart
    had a feeling of being set apart
ADJECTIVE
  1. remote and separate physically or socially
    preserved because they inhabited a place apart
    tiny isolated villages remote from centers of civilization
    an obscure village
    existed over the centuries as a world apart
  2. having characteristics not shared by others
    scientists felt they were a group apart
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How To Use apart In A Sentence

  • Rows of brick garden apartments all backed onto a massive common garden: a shared backyard for children to play, dogs to gambol, and families to eat picnics together. Day of Honey
  • Apart from any other objection, a different classification would be reached if the characters were used in a different sequence.
  • Everyone's at it - apart from a few notable and honourable exceptions. The Sun
  • If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
  • And, yes, the otherwise companionless apartment smelled like love for a few weeks each spring. The Orangery
  • I looking forward to seeing Mark as we've been apart for a few days.
  • If it were a little more curved it would collapse, imploding on itself in a cosmic crunch; a little less curved, and every star, planet, sun and galaxy would fly apart from each other and so would every atom of matter in each of them.
  • But it is worthwhile teasing this apart a little, unbinding the different aspects of rhetorics lumped together in one component and separating out the semiotic layering (i.e. the use of metaphor and metonym) stuck in with the second. On the Sublime
  • Apart from paintings he produced a good deal of graphic work, including numerous book illustrations in lithograph and woodcut.
  • They propagated political doctrines which promised to tear apart the fabric of British society.
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