Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: fruition
IPA transcription: [fɹu'ɪʃən]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: realization, realisation, fruition
    Meaning: something that is made real or concrete; "the victory was the realization of a whole year's work"
  • Synonyms: fruition
    Meaning: enjoyment derived from use or possession
  • Synonyms: fruition
    Meaning: the condition of bearing fruit
Usage examples
  • Instead of appearing elated at the near approach of the fruition of his schemes, he sat at his table for fully half an hour looking straight in front of him.
  • Viewed from the standpoint of inventive progress, the first half of the nineteenth century had passed very profitably when Edison appeared--every year marked by some notable achievement in the arts and sciences, with promise of its early and abundant fruition in commerce and industry.
  • If a new birth could still be called by a man's own name, the reason would be that the concrete faculties now present in him are the basis for the ideal he throws out, and if these particular faculties came to fruition in a new being, he would call that being himself, inasmuch as it realised his ideal.