annunciation

Other forms of annunciation

plural

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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 annunciation

What does annunciation mean?

annunciation means "a festival commemorating the announcement of the Incarnation by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in annunciation?

annunciation has 6 syllables and divides as an-nun-ci-a-ti-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for annunciation?

Close synonyms include Lady Day, Annunciation Day, March 25, announcement, proclamation. 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 annunciation a common word?

annunciation 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.