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Synonyms for detachment
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : dih-tach-muhnt |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈtætʃ mənt |
Top 10 synonyms for detachment Other synonyms for the word detachment
- brown study
- coldness
- coolness
- detail
- disinterestedness
- disjoining
- dissolution
- disunion
- division
- divorce
- divorcement
- dreaminess
- force
- impartiality
- incuriosity
- nonpartisanship
- organization
- partition
- party
- preoccupation
- reverie
- rupture
- separation
- severing
- special force
- split-up
- troupe
- unconcern
- unit
- woolgathering
Définition of detachment
Origin :- 1660s, "action of detaching," from French détachement (17c.), from détacher (see detach). Meaning "portion of a military force" is from 1670s; that of "aloofness from objects or circumstances" is from 1798.
- noun disconnection
- noun aloofness
- noun military troop
- Her detachment had impressed Chief Inspector Heat all along.
- Extract from : « The Secret Agent » by Joseph Conrad
- His example was followed by Torres, who commanded the other detachment.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 » by Various
- This composite body of troops has been called Geddes's Detachment.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of VIII) » by Various
- "There's a detachment moving in there from the south," said the Governor.
- Extract from : « Two Thousand Miles Below » by Charles Willard Diffin
- When the detachment arrived, nothing was left for them but plunder.
- Extract from : « Chronicles of Border Warfare » by Alexander Scott Withers
- Naturally, the art is the detachment and the lesson is in the perfect representation.
- Extract from : « Mountain Meditations » by L. Lind-af-Hageby
- The detachment of the King's guards returned to the Tuileries.
- Extract from : « The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete » by Duc de Saint-Simon
- Roudier commanded the detachment remaining in the courtyard.
- Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
- The detachment on duty there accompanied the prefect and the colonel as a guard of honour.
- Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
- On the 25th of August, 1636, the detachment sailed from Boston.
- Extract from : « King Philip » by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Antonyms for detachment
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