subordination

Other forms of subordination

plural

subordinations·

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 subordination

What does subordination mean?

subordination means "the state of being subordinate to something". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in subordination?

subordination has 5 syllables: su-bor-di-na-tion. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /səˌbɔɹdəˈneɪʃən/.

What is another word for subordination?

Close synonyms include hyponymy, mastery. 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.

What is the opposite of subordination?

The recorded antonyms are insubordination.

Is subordination a common word?

subordination is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 subordination?

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