regeneration

Other forms of regeneration

plural

regenerations·

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 regeneration

What does regeneration mean?

regeneration means "(biology) growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in regeneration?

regeneration has 5 syllables: re-gen-e-ra-tion. The stress falls on "gen". In IPA it is /ɹiˈdʒɛnɚˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for regeneration?

Close synonyms include positive feedback, re-formation. 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 regeneration a common word?

regeneration 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 regeneration?

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