concoction

1. 1.

   any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients

   “he volunteered to taste her latest concoction”

   “he drank a mixture of beer and lemonade”

   Synonymsmixtureintermixture

   Broaderfoodstuff

   Narrowermincemeatstuffingrouxbatterdoughmixfilling
2. 2.

   an occurrence of an unusual mixture

   “it suddenly spewed out a thick green concoction”

   Broadermix
3. 3.

   the invention of a scheme or story to suit some purpose

   “his testimony was a concoction”

   “she has no peer in the concoction of mystery stories”

   Broaderinvention
4. 4.

   the act of creating something (a medicine or drink or soup etc.) by compounding or mixing a variety of components

   Synonymsconfection

   Broadercreating from raw materials

Other forms of concoction

plural

concoctions·

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 concoction

What does concoction mean?

concoction means "any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in concoction?

concoction has 3 syllables: con-coc-tion. The stress falls on "coc". In IPA it is /kənˈkɑkʃən/.

What is another word for concoction?

Close synonyms include mixture, intermixture, confection. 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 concoction a common word?

concoction 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.