ordination

Other forms of ordination

plural

ordinations·

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 ordination

What does ordination mean?

ordination means "the status of being ordained to a sacred office". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ordination?

ordination has 4 syllables: or-di-na-tion. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /ˌɔɹdəˈneɪʃən/.

What is another word for ordination?

Close synonyms include ordering, order, ordinance. 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 ordination a common word?

ordination is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 ordination?

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