vaccination

1. 1.

   taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease

   Synonymsinoculation

   Broaderimmunization
2. 2.

   the scar left following inoculation with a vaccine

   Broaderscar

Other forms of vaccination

plural

vaccinations·

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 vaccination

What does vaccination mean?

vaccination means "taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vaccination?

vaccination has 4 syllables: vac-ci-na-tion. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /væksəˈneɪʃən/.

What is another word for vaccination?

Close synonyms include inoculation. 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 vaccination a common word?

vaccination is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 vaccination?

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