meditation

See also: Meditation and méditation

English

Etymology

From Old French meditacion, from Latin meditatio, from meditatus, the past participle of meditārī (“to meditate, to think over, consider”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, limit, consider, advise”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mɛdɪˈteɪʃən/
  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

meditation (countable and uncountable, plural meditations)

  1. A devotional exercise of, or leading to contemplation.
  2. A contemplative discourse, often on a religious or philosophical subject.
  3. A musical theme treated in a meditative manner.

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Danish

Etymology

From meditere (“to meditate”), from Latin meditārī (“to meditate, to think over, consider”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /meditasjoːn/, [med̥itˢaˈɕoːˀn]

Noun

meditation c (singular definite meditationen, plural indefinite meditationer)

  1. meditation
  2. pondering

Inflection
Declension of meditation
common
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative meditation meditationen meditationer meditationerne
genitive meditations meditationens meditationers meditationernes

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