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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Departure \De*par"ture\ (?; 135), noun [From {Depart}.]
1. Division; separation; putting away. [Obs.]
No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. --Milton.
2. Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.
Departure from this happy place. --Milton.
3. Removal from the present life; death; decease.
The time of my departure is at hand. --2 Tim. iv. 6.
His timely departure . . . barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries. --Sir P. Sidney.
4. Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose.
Any departure from a national standard. --Prescott.
5. (Law) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. --Bouvier.
6. (Nav. & Surv.) The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.
Note: Since the meridians sensibly converge, the departure in navigation is not measured from the beginning nor from the end of the ship's course, but is regarded as the total easting or westing made by the ship or person as he travels over the course.
{To take a departure} (Nav. & Surv.), to ascertain, usually by taking bearings from a landmark, the position of a vessel at the beginning of a voyage as a point from which to begin her dead reckoning; as, the ship took her departure from Sandy Hook.
Syn: Death; demise; release. See {Death}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
departure
noun
1: act of departing [syn: {going}, {going away}, {leaving}]
2: a variation that deviates from the standard or norm; "the deviation from the mean" [syn: {deviation}, {divergence}, {difference}]
3: euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing" [syn: {passing}, {loss}, {exit}, {expiration}, {going}, {release}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
226 Moby Thesaurus words for "departure": AWOL, French leave, aberrancy, aberration, abscondence, absence, absence without leave, absentation, absenteeism, absenting, annihilation, bane, bend, bias, biological death, blackout, blocking, branching off, bypath, byway, cessation of life, circuitousness, clinical death, contrariety, contrast, corner, crook, crossing the bar, curtains, curve, cut, day off, death, death knell, debt of nature, decampment, decease, declination, default, deflection, dematerialization, demise, detour, deviance, deviancy, deviation, deviousness, difference, digression, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disappearance, disappearing, disconformity, discongruity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, discursion, disparity, dispersion, dissent, dissimilarity, dissipation, dissolution, dissolving, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, divagation, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversion, diversity, dogleg, doom, double, drift, drifting, dying, ebb of life, eclipse, egress, egression, elimination, end, end of life, ending, episode, erasure, errantry, escape, eternal rest, evanescence, evaporation, excursion, excursus, excused absence, exit, exodus, exorbitation, expiration, extinction, extinguishment, extraction, fadeaway, fadeout, fading, far cry, farewell, final summons, finger of death, fleeing, flight, forthcoming, furlough, going, going off, going out, grave, hairpin, hand of death, heterogeneity, holiday, hooky, inaccordance, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, indirection, inequality, inharmoniousness, inharmony, irreconcilability, jaws of death, knell, last debt, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, leave, leave of absence, leave-taking, leaving, leaving life, loss of life, making an end, melting, mixture, nonappearance, nonattendance, nonconformity, obliquity, occultation, odds, opposition, otherness, outcome, outcoming, outgo, outgoing, parting, passing, passing away, passing over, pererration, perishing, quietus, rambling, release, rest, retreat, reward, running away, sabbatical leave, sentence of death, separateness, shades of death, shadow of death, sheer, shift, shifting, shifting course, shifting path, sick leave, side path, side road, sidetrack, skew, slant, sleep, somatic death, straying, summons of death, sweep, swerve, swerving, swinging, tack, truancy, truantism, turn, turning, twist, unconformity, unexcused absence, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, vacation, vanishing, vanishing point, variance, variation, variegation, variety, veer, wandering, warp, wipe, withdrawal, yaw, zigzag
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