dismission

Other forms of dismission

plural

dismissions·

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 dismission

What does dismission mean?

dismission means "official notice that you have been fired from your job". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dismission?

dismission has 4 syllables: di-smis-si-on. The stress falls on "si".

What is another word for dismission?

Close synonyms include dismissal, pink slip, dismissal, discharge, firing. 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 dismission a common word?

dismission is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.