divide

Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: A2 — Elementary

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)
noun a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
verb separate into parts or portions

From Middle English dividen, from Latin dīvidere (“to divide”). Displaced native Old English tōdǣlan.

The road divided into three. — Three men on the bummel, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
You see it divides itself into three. — The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers
Seven years later (1629) they divided their property. — A School History of the United States, John Bach McMaster

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