manifestation

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a clear appearance
  2. noun a manifest indication of the existence or presence or nature of some person or thing
  3. noun an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit)

Etymology

From Middle English manifestacion, manyfestacion, manyfestacioun, from Late Latin manifestātiō. In the political sense, a semantic loan from French manifestation. By surface analysis, manifest + -ation.

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