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dictation has 3 distinct synonyms spread across 1 of its 3 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for dictation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
speech intended for reproduction in writing
matter that has been dictated and transcribed; a dictated passage
“he signed and mailed his dictation without bothering to read it”