conservation

Other forms of conservation

plural

conservations·

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 conservation

What does conservation mean?

conservation means "an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in conservation?

conservation has 4 syllables: con-ser-va-tion. The stress falls on "va". In IPA it is /ˌkɑnsɚˈveɪʃən/.

What is another word for conservation?

Close synonyms include preservation. 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 conservation a common word?

conservation 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 conservation?

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