/ˈseprət/ ADJ If one thing is ~ from another, there is a barrier, space, or division between them, so that they are clearly two things. Business bank accounts were kept ~ from personal ones. ADJ If you refer to ~ things, you mean several different things, rather than just one thing; But as the years went by, you probably took up ~ interests, and began to spend more and more time apart. Men and women have ~ exercise rooms.