meditation

English Online Dictionary. What means meditation‎? What does meditation mean?

English

Etymology

From Old French meditacion, from Latin meditatio, from meditatus, the past participle of meditārī (“to meditate, to think over, consider”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, limit, consider, advise”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛdɪˈteɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

meditation (countable and uncountable, plural meditations)

1. A devotional exercise of, or leading to, contemplation.

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2. Any of various types of achieving more or less altered states of consciousness, such as vacancy of mind or prolonged contemplation on a single sensation or thought, through relaxed or focused mental and physical activity generally of a nonstrenuous and non–substance-induced nature.

   Hyponym: transcendental meditation

1. A contemplative discourse, often on a religious or philosophical subject.

2. A musical theme treated in a meditative manner.
3. Careful and thorough thought.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:consideration

   deep meditation

   in meditation

Derived terms

Related terms

• meditate
• meditative
• meditationist
• meditativeness
• premeditation

Translations

See also

• mentation

Anagrams

• tomatidine

Danish

Etymology

From meditere (“to meditate”), from Latin meditārī (“to meditate, to think over, consider”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meditasjoːn/, [med̥itˢaˈɕoːˀn]

Noun

meditation c (singular definite meditationen, plural indefinite meditationer)

1. meditation
2. pondering

Inflection

See also

• meditation on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Swedish

Noun

meditation c

1. meditation

Declension

Related terms

• meditera (“meditate”)

References

• meditation in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• meditation in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• meditation in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)