citation

Other forms of citation

plural

citations·

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 citation

What does citation mean?

citation means "an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in citation?

citation has 3 syllables: ci-ta-tion. The stress falls on "ta". In IPA it is /saɪˈteɪʃən/.

What is another word for citation?

Close synonyms include commendation, cite, acknowledgment, credit, reference. 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 citation a common word?

citation is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 citation?

89 words rhyme with citation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.