duration

Other forms of duration

plural

durations·

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 duration

What does duration mean?

duration means "the period of time during which something continues". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in duration?

duration has 3 syllables: dur-a-tion. The stress falls on "dur". In IPA it is /ˈdʊˈɹeɪʃən/.

What is another word for duration?

Close synonyms include continuance, continuance, length. 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 duration a common word?

duration 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 duration?

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