acknowledgment

1. 1.

   the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged

   “the partners were delighted with the recognition of their work”

   “she seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own”

   Synonymsrecognitionacknowledgement

   Broaderacceptance
2. 2.

   a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage

   “the student's essay failed to list several important citations”

   “the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book”

   “the article includes mention of similar clinical cases”

   Synonymscitationcitecreditreferencementionquotation

   Broadernote

   Narrowerphoto creditcross-reference
3. 3.

   a statement acknowledging something or someone

   “she must have seen him but she gave no sign of acknowledgment”

   “the preface contained an acknowledgment of those who had helped her”

   Synonymsacknowledgement

   Broadermessage

   Narrowercreditsreceiptfarewellgreetingalohahandshakeapologymea culpacondolencedeclination

Other forms of acknowledgment

plural

acknowledgments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about acknowledgment

What does acknowledgment mean?

acknowledgment means "the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in acknowledgment?

acknowledgment has 4 syllables: ack-now-ledg-ment. The stress falls on "now". In IPA it is /ækˈnɑlɪdʒmənt/.

What is another word for acknowledgment?

Close synonyms include recognition, acknowledgement, citation, cite, credit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acknowledgment a common word?

acknowledgment is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with acknowledgment?

1 word rhymes with acknowledgment. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.