indiction

1. 1.

   a 15-year cycle used as a chronological unit in ancient Rome and adopted in some medieval kingdoms

   Broadertime period

Other forms of indiction

plural

indictions·

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 indiction

What does indiction mean?

indiction means "a 15-year cycle used as a chronological unit in ancient Rome and adopted in some medieval kingdoms".

How many syllables are in indiction?

indiction has 4 syllables: in-dic-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

Is indiction a common word?

indiction 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.