Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: formation
IPA transcription: [fɔɹm'eɪʃən]
Pronunciations of formation
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: formation
    Meaning: an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit; "a defensive formation"; "a formation of planes"
  • Synonyms: formation, shaping
    Meaning: the act of fabricating something in a particular shape
  • Synonyms: constitution, establishment, formation, organization, organisation
    Meaning: the act of forming or establishing something; "the constitution of a PTA group last year"; "it was the establishment of his reputation"; "he still remembers the organization of the club"
  • Synonyms: geological_formation, formation
    Meaning: (geology) the geological features of the earth
  • Synonyms: formation
    Meaning: a particular spatial arrangement
Usage examples
  • Get your people out swiftly, keeping them in formation!
  • If, however, it is cloudy or the wind is blowing there is rarely any formation of dew.
  • Then all turn at once, changing from the long, narrow marching column into compact formation.
  • We were moving over grey rocks of dense and massive formation, which in cooling had formed into hexagonal prisms.
  • The formation of this Museum, the chief work of Sir Henry Cole's useful life, was far from exhausting his energies.
  • There was little change in the formation of the gorge; it still wound its erratic course between precipitous cliffs.
  • Doubtless in the manner of their formation, and in a due dependence of those who are to administer them upon the people.
  • Bishop Butler has helped many men in the intelligent formation of their character, and what higher praise could be given to any author?
  • Do our characters come to be what they are by chance, or have we anything to do in the formation of our own characters, and if so, in what way?
  • I had heard of the Giant's Causeway in Ireland, and Fingal's Cave in Staffa, one of the Hebrides; but I had never yet seen a basaltic formation.
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1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Canadians, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Lewisville, Texas, License CC BY-SA 4.0
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