département
Americannoun
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départements
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of département
C18: from départir to divide; see depart
Example Sentences
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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
Even a week or so spent eating and drinking your way around the Gers, the 60-mile-wide département that constitutes Gascony’s heartland, is enough to spark a lifelong love affair.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2017
In 1792, under the First Republic, Nice was again occupied by the French, and declared a chef-lieu de département.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 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
The préfets of the various départements, the bureaucracy of provinces and cities, are not only amazed but struck with terror: "This is a new Revolution!" they cry in dismay.
From The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
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
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