🇬🇧 Department meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A department is one special area of a big store where they sell one main kind of thing, like the toy department for toys, the shoe department for shoes, or the bakery department for yummy bread and cakes.

In the music department, I played every piano, every drum, and every employee’s last nerve.

Grandma got lost in the book department and said, “Don’t rescue me; bring snacks and I’ll live here now.”

In the luggage department I climbed into a suitcase, and Mom said, “Perfect, we’ll pack you when you get too noisy.”

The art department let me test markers, so I drew a tiny mustache on every picture of a model I could find.

In the candy department, my brain said, “No more sugar,” but my hands grabbed everything anyway.

A small girl sees a red toy car in the toy department. She points and runs to the coat department to find her dad. Her dad is in the food department, but he sees her in the toy department. He smiles, buys the car in the toy department, and the girl hugs him and laughs.

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This word is at the A2 level, which means it’s useful for simple, everyday situations. You might use it when shopping, traveling, or talking about your hobbies. Words at this level help you build confidence in practical, routine conversations.

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