translation

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language
  2. noun a uniform movement without rotation
  3. noun the act of changing in form or shape or appearance

Etymology

From Middle English translacioun (“transfer, translation”), from Anglo-Norman translacioun, from Latin trānslātiō, from trānslāt-, the supine stem of trānsferō (“to transfer, transport, transform, translate”). Equivalent to translate + -ion. Displaced native Old English wending.

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Synonyms

interlingual rendition, rendering, version

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