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Answer for the clue "Partner in, Mrs out: Bo Peep going out ", 8 letters:
opposite

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "placed on the other side of (something)," from Old French oposite "opposite, contrary" (13c.), from Latin oppositus "standing against, opposed, opposite," past participle of opponere "set against" (see opponent ). Meaning "contrary in nature ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. being directly across from each other; facing; "And I on the opposite shore will be, ready to ride and spread the alarm"- Longfellow; "we lived on opposite sides of the street"; "at opposite poles" of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 locate directly across from something else, or from each other. 2 face in the other direction. 3 Of either of two complementary or mutually exclusive things. 4 Extremely different; inconsistent; contrary; repugnant; antagonistic. adv. In an opposite ...

Usage examples of opposite.

If we only consider the mean or average effect in orbits nearly circular, this force may be considered as an ablatitious force at all distances below the mean, counterbalanced by an opposite effect at all distances above the mean.

The Slocum syndicate had just broken ground for a luxury development in the opposite direction on acreage safely within Magnolia city limits, Laura acknowledged.

But the reader who recollects the class of texts adduced a little while since will remember that an opposite conclusion was as unequivocally drawn from them.

During adolescence, humans experiment intensely with new intimate relationships, especially opposite sex relationships.

He was thinking of something so widely different, being seated, in fact, just opposite to Sara, who, fresh from her afternoon sleep, was looking adorably pensive in her black dress edged with a soft white frill that took a heart-shaped curve in front, just wide enough to show the exquisite hollow in the lower part of her throat.

During this action Lyttelton had held the Boers in their trenches opposite to him by advancing to within 1500 yards of them, but the attack was not pushed further.

There Tom told how the Red Cloud came to be built, and of his first trip in the air, while, on the opposite side, Miss Delafield lectured to the entire school on aeronautics, as she thought she knew them.

At the top of this street, on the side farthest from the cathedral, the vast west window of which could just be seen over the gables, chimneys, and stork-nests of the opposite houses, we stopped before the common door of one of the lofty old houses, against the posts of which were attached several affiches or notices of differing forms and material.

The screw aft of the rudder, a moment before pumping water forward, slowed, stopped and began rotating in the opposite direction, now pumping water aft, thrusting the ship forward.

Through the windows opposite shone an afterglow sky of ochre and pale-green, and from somewhere just outside came the low cackle of birds settling to roost along a cornicemy-nahs or starlings.

Free-Trade and Slavery by turns, if not together, from that time onward, were ever at the front, agitating our People both North and South, and not only consolidating the Southern States on those lines, as the Conspirators designed, but also serving ultimately to consolidate, to some extent--in a manner quite unlooked for by the Conspirators-- Northern sentiment, on the opposite lines of Protection and Freedom.

Beyond them again the opposite wall rose sheer to fantastic aiguilles of dark rock.

One bay east, and on the opposite side of the aisle, is the tomb of Archbishop Savage, who died in 1507.

On the opposite side of the float the crew of the Flying Fish, the Snark, the Bonita and the Albacore were equally busy over their craft.

Dragging him to the wall opposite Alec, they manacled him hand and foot.