département
Americannoun
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départements
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of département
C18: from départir to divide; see depart
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Crop fires are a huge and expensive problem with some 300 a year in this département alone, Chaudier says.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
"The big change, especially in my département, is that now we've got cameras assisted by artificial intelligence to watch the forest and see where fires are starting," Millet says.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The département of Lot in south-west France is one of the country's most rural.
From BBC ● Apr. 9, 2023
Though the Gers does have one grande randonnée route — a multiday loop that starts and ends in Auch — the département is a paradise for day hikers.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2017
The two days' diligence journey from Grenoble to the département des Hautes-Alpes was over one of those broad macadamized highways which make driving a luxury in many parts of Europe.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 by Various
Much of what’s happening now—the weather service’s “red alerts” for 20 French départements, for example—is policy that’s a direct result of that summer.
From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2019
In Haiti, which now imports 80% of its food, the government has focused development on the capital and not rural areas in the surrounding départements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2010
In the first place, Montbéliard is one of the most enlightened, best educated, and most Protestant départements of all France.
From Holidays in Eastern France by Matilda Betham-Edwards
In each département there is a normal school for each sex, though in a few instances two départements combine to maintain one normal school.
From History of Education by Levi Seeley
It is not without interest here to note that the Federalist leader proposed the very measures which had been adopted in France when the old provinces were divided into départements.
From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard
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