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say it: med-uh-TAY-shuhn
meditation is a noun meaning "continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature". It is pronounced /ˌmɛdəˈteɪʃən/ — med-uh-TAY-shuhn. It carries 2 recorded senses.
continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature
“the habit of meditation is the basis for all real knowledge”
(religion) contemplation of spiritual matters (usually on religious or philosophical subjects)
religion
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for meditation come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.