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say it: kahn-fur-MAY-shuhn
confirmation is a noun meaning "additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct". It carries 5 recorded senses.
additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct
“fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory”
information that confirms or verifies
making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it
“the ratification of the treaty”
“confirmation of the appointment”
a ceremony held in the synagogue (usually at Pentecost) to admit as adult members of the Jewish community young men and women who have successfully completed a course of study in Judaism
a sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the 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 confirmation 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.