Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - parting

(partings) 1. Parting is the act of leaving a particular person or place. A parting is an occasion when this happens. It was a dreadfully emotional parting. N-VAR 2. Your parting words or actions are the things that you say or do as you are leaving a place or person. Her parting words left him feeling empty and alone. ADJ: ADJ n 3. The parting in someone’s hair is the line running from the front to the back of their head where their hair lies in different directions. (BRIT; in AM, use part) N-COUNT 4. When there is a parting of the ways, two or more people or groups of people stop working together or travelling together. ...a negotiated parting of the ways for the three Baltic republics. PHRASE