potation

Other forms of potation

plural

potations·

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 potation

What does potation mean?

potation means "a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in potation?

potation has 4 syllables: po-ta-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for potation?

Close synonyms include draft, draught, tipple. 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 potation a common word?

potation 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.