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say it: kan-uh-nuh-ZAY-shuhn
canonization is a noun meaning "(Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints". It is pronounced /ˌkænənəˈzeɪʃən/ — kan-uh-nuh-ZAY-shuhn. It carries one recorded sense.
(Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints
Roman Catholic · Orthodox Church
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for canonization come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.