separation

séparation

Situation ou période où l’on est séparé de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose.

En anglais simple : The state or period of being apart from someone or something.

• The long separation was painful.
• They met again after years of separation.
• The puppy struggled with separation from its mother.

Comment l'utiliser : separation from someone/something (The child found separation from her parents difficult.); separation between A and B (The distance creates a physical separation between the two communities.)

Synonymes : barrier, separator

Contraires : togetherness

Expressions courantes : long separation, physical separation, separation from someone