certificate

1. 1.

   present someone with a certificate

   Broaderaward
2. 2.

   authorize by certificate

   Broaderauthorize

Other forms of certificate

plural

certificates·

past tense

certificated·

present participle

certificating·

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 certificate

What does certificate mean?

certificate means "a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in certificate?

certificate has 4 syllables: cer-tif-i-cate. The stress falls on "tif". In IPA it is /sɚˈtɪfɪkət/.

What is another word for certificate?

Close synonyms include certification, credential, credentials, security. 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 certificate a common word?

certificate is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.