meditation

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature
  2. noun (religion) contemplation of spiritual matters (usually on religious or philosophical subjects)

Etymology

From Old French meditacion, from Latin meditatio, from meditatus, the past participle of meditārī (“to meditate, to think over, consider”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, limit, consider, advise”).

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Synonyms

speculation

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