say it: kahn-suhl-TAY-shuhn
consultation is a noun meaning "a conference (usually with someone important)". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a conference (usually with someone important)
“he had a consultation with the judge”
“he requested an audience with the king”
a conference between two or more people to consider a particular question
“frequent consultations with his lawyer”
“a consultation of several medical specialists”
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 consultation 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.