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say it: tri-byuh-LAY-shuhn
tribulation is a noun meaning "an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event". It carries one recorded sense.
an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event
“his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him”
“life is full of tribulations”
“a visitation of the plague”
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 tribulation 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.