parting — OET

parting

noun

1 it was an emotional parting:

farewell, leave-taking, goodbye, adieu, departure, leaving, going (away);

valediction.

2 he and his wife kept their parting quiet from the press:

separation, break-up, splitting up, split, split-up, breaking up, divorce, rift, breach, parting of the ways, estrangement, rupture;

British, informal bust-up.

3 the parting of the Red Sea:

division, dividing, separation, separating, splitting, breaking up/apart, severance, disjoining, detachment, partition, partitioning.

adjective

a parting kiss:

farewell, goodbye, departing, leaving, last, final, closing, concluding, valedictory;

deathbed, dying.

parting Oxford Dictionary of English