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say it: sich-oo-AY-shuhn
situation is a noun meaning "the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time". It is pronounced /ˌsɪtʃuˈeɪʃən/ — sich-oo-AY-shuhn. It carries 5 recorded senses.
the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time
“the present international situation is dangerous”
“wondered how such a state of affairs had come about”
“eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation”
a complex or critical or unusual difficulty
“the dangerous situation developed suddenly”
“that's quite a situation”
“no human situation is simple”
physical position in relation to the surroundings
“the sites are determined by highly specific sequences of nucleotides”
a job in an organization
“he occupied a post in the treasury”
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 situation 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.