maturation

Other forms of maturation

plural

maturations·

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 maturation

What does maturation mean?

maturation means "coming to full development; becoming mature". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in maturation?

maturation has 4 syllables: mat-u-ra-tion. The stress falls on "ra". In IPA it is /ˌmætʃɚˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for maturation?

Close synonyms include ripening, maturement, growth, growing, development. 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 maturation a common word?

maturation 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.

What rhymes with maturation?

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