[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

department \depart"ment\, n. f. d'epartement, fr.
   d'epartir. see depart, v. i.
   1. act of departing; departure. obs.
      1913 webster

            sudden departments from one extreme to another.
                                                  --wotton.
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   2. a part, portion, or subdivision.
      1913 webster

   3. a distinct course of life, action, study, or the like;
      appointed sphere or walk; province.
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            superior to pope in pope's own peculiar department
            of literature.                        --macaulay.
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   4. subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one
      of the principal divisions of executive government; as,
      the treasury department; the war department; also, in a
      university, one of the divisions of instruction; as, the
      medical department; the department of physics.
      1913 webster

   5. a territorial division; a district; esp., in france, one
      of the districts composed of several arrondissements into
      which the country is divided for governmental purposes;
      as, the department of the loire.
      1913 webster

   6. a military subdivision of a country; as, the department of
      the potomac.
      1913 webster
see also:
depart 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

department
     n 1: a specialized division of a large organization; "you'll find
          it in the hardware department"; "she got a job in the
          historical section of the treasury" syn: section
     2: the territorial and administrative division of some
        countries such as france
     3: a specialized sphere of knowledge; "baking is not my
        department"; "his work established a new department of
        literature"
see also:
section 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

83 moby thesaurus words for "department":
   airspace, ambit, area, arena, bailiwick, beat, belt, border,
   borderland, branch, bureau, circle, circuit, commissariat, concern,
   confines, constablery, constablewick, constabulary,
   continental shelf, control, corridor, country, demesne, discipline,
   district, division, domain, dominion, environs, field, ground,
   heartland, hemisphere, hinterland, judicial circuit, jurisdiction,
   land, march, milieu, ministry, municipality, neighborhood, office,
   offshore rights, orb, orbit, pale, part, parts, place, precinct,
   precincts, premises, province, purlieus, quarter, realm, region,
   responsibility, round, salient, secretariat, section, segment,
   sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shrievalty, soil, space, sphere,
   subdiscipline, subdivision, terrain, territory, three-mile limit,
   twelve-mile limit, unit, vicinage, vicinity, walk, worry, zone

[4] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

department. a portion of a country. in france, the country is divided into 
departments, which are somewhat similar to the counties in this country. the 
united states have been divided into military departments, including certain 
portions of the country. 1 pet. 293. 
     2. by department is also meant the division of authority, as, the 
department of state, of the navy, c. 

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