meditation
See also: Meditation and méditation
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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”).
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NounEdit
meditation (countable and uncountable, plural meditations)
- A devotional exercise of, or leading to contemplation.
- A contemplative discourse, often on a religious or philosophical subject.
- A musical theme treated in a meditative manner.
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TranslationsEdit
devotional contemplation
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contemplative discourse
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DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From meditere (“to meditate”), from Latin meditārī (“to meditate, to think over, consider”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
meditation c (singular definite meditationen, plural indefinite meditationer)
InflectionEdit
Declension of meditation
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | meditation | meditationen | meditationer | meditationerne |
genitive | meditations | meditationens | meditationers | meditationernes |
See alsoEdit
- meditation on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da