inauguration

Other forms of inauguration

plural

inaugurations·

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 inauguration

What does inauguration mean?

inauguration means "the act of starting a new operation or practice". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inauguration?

inauguration has 5 syllables: i-nau-gu-ra-tion. The stress falls on "ra". In IPA it is /ɪˌnɔɡjɚˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for inauguration?

Close synonyms include startup, inaugural. 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 inauguration a common word?

inauguration 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 inauguration?

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