departing
Setting off now
Departing means leaving or going away from a place.
A departing flight is one about to take off.
A departing guest is heading out the door.
The word often carries a sense of finality or formality: departing words, the departing CEO.
To depart from something can also mean to deviate from it: departing from tradition.
Departing salutation
- adieuFormal leave-taking
- partingAct of leaving another
- send-offFarewell gathering or party
- valedictionFormal parting statement
sayonara · adios · farewell · cheerio · godspeed · leave-taking · wave · embrace
Way to leave
- embarkationBeginning a voyage
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- evacuationRemoval from danger
- exodusMass departure from somewhere
Aerial journey by aircraft
- boardingEntering a vehicle
- terminalAt the endpoint
- gateHinged barrier in fence
- platformRaised flat structure
station · passport · luggage · itinerary · ticket · check-in · taxi · runway
Egg-laying flying vertebrates
- geesePlural of goose
- swallowsGulps or migratory birds
- caribouNorth American arctic deer
- salmonPink-fleshed migratory fish
wildebeest · whales · seasonal · flyway · instinct · breeding-grounds · wintering · southbound
Moving by or temporary
- dyingCeasing to live
- deathbedDying person's resting place
- terminalAt the endpoint
- palliativeOffering relief, not remedy
afterlife · transition · end-of-life · fading · expiring · succumbing · loss · mourning
Departure from expected path
- strayingDeparting from course
- veeringChanging direction suddenly
- digressingDeparting from subject
- deviatingDeparting from standard
differing · dissenting · nonconformity · unorthodox · unconventional
goodbye
Departing salutation
valediction · sayonara · adios · farewell · cheerio · godspeed · leave-taking · wave · embrace · tears
exit
Way to leave
- embarkationBeginning a voyage
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- evacuationRemoval from danger
flight
Aerial journey by aircraft
platform · station · passport · luggage · itinerary · ticket · check-in · taxi · runway · timetable
birds
Egg-laying flying vertebrates
salmon · wildebeest · whales · seasonal · flyway · instinct · breeding-grounds · wintering · southbound · northbound
passing
Moving by or temporary
palliative · afterlife · transition · end-of-life · fading · expiring · succumbing · loss · mourning · bereavement
deviation
Departure from expected path
- strayingDeparting from course
- veeringChanging direction suddenly
- digressingDeparting from subject
deviating · differing · dissenting · nonconformity · unorthodox · unconventional
- flight statusbooked, canceled, delayed, boarding, cancelled
- transit actionsboarding, riding, waiting, standing, sitting
- movementwalk, move, go, run, jump
- setting offleaving, heading out, taking off, embarking, setting off
- divergingforking, splitting, branching, parting, separating
- driving awayrepelling, banishing, forcing out, warding off, fending off
departingarriving
Reaching a destination
coming · approaching · entering · incoming · landing
departingarrival
Act of reaching destination
appearing · advent · materializing · showing up · surfacing
depart, department, departure, departed, departs, departments, departures, departmental, departmentally