preservation

1. 1.

   the activity of protecting something from loss or danger

   Synonymssaving

   Broaderprotection

   Narrowerenvironmentalismconservationself-preservationreservationimmobilization
2. 2.

   the condition of being (well or ill) preserved

   Broadercondition
3. 3.

   a process that saves organic substances from decay

   Broaderorganic process

   Narrowerfixationembalmmentplastinationrefrigeration
4. 4.

   an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change

   Synonymsconservation

   Broaderimprovement

Other forms of preservation

plural

preservations·

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 preservation

What does preservation mean?

preservation means "the activity of protecting something from loss or danger". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in preservation?

preservation has 4 syllables: pres-er-va-tion. The stress falls on "va". In IPA it is /ˌpɹɛzɚˈveɪʃən/.

What is another word for preservation?

Close synonyms include saving, conservation. 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 preservation a common word?

preservation is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 preservation?

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