say it: pree-med-uh-TAY-shuhn
premeditation is a noun meaning "planning or plotting in advance of acting". It carries 2 recorded senses.
planning or plotting in advance of acting
(law) thought and intention to commit a crime well in advance of the crime; goes to show criminal intent
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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 premeditation 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.