dictations

Meaning of dictations

noun
  1. Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words
    Since I learned shorthand, I can take dictation at eighty words a minute.
  2. An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down
    1908: Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables - We had reading and geography and Canadian history and dictation today.
  3. The act of ordering or commanding
    1852: Lysander Spooner, An Essay on the Trial by Jury - ...jurors in England have formerly understood it to be their right and duty to judge only according to their consciences, and not to submit to any dictation from the court, either as to law or fact.
  4. Orders given in an overbearing manner
    His habit, even with friends, was that of dictation.

Information about dictations

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of dictations is: dictation.
  • Languages ​​in which dictations is used:

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Hyphenation of dictations

dic-ta-tions

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • dictations is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Anagrams of dictations

Donatistic, donatistic

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