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Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: A2 — Elementary

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Definition

  1. noun a message received and understood
  2. noun knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
  3. noun formal accusation of a crime

Etymology

From Middle English enformacioun, informacioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman informacioun, enformation, Old French information, from Latin īnfōrmātiō (“formation, conception; education”), from the participle stem of īnformāre (“to inform”). Equivalent to inform + -ation.

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