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say it: sal-VAY-shuhn
salvation is a noun meaning "(theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil". It carries 4 recorded senses.
(theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil
theology
a means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness
“tourism was their economic salvation”
“they turned to individualism as their salvation”
the state of being saved or preserved from harm
saving someone or something from harm or from an unpleasant situation
“the salvation of his party was the president's major concern”
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 salvation 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.