amendment
NounUS[uh-mend-muhnt]/əˈmɛndmənt/3 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (2)amendments
- the act of amending or correctingType of correction, rectification
- a statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document (a bill or constitution etc.)Type of statementExamples First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
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Translations
Noun correction or addition to a law
- Spanish
- enmienda
- French
- amendement
- German
- Änderung
- Italian
- emendamento
- Portuguese
- emenda
- Russian
- попра́вка poprávka
- Japanese
- 改正 kaisei
- Polish
- nowelizacja
- Swedish
- tillägg
- Greek
- τροπολογία tropología
9 more languages
- Korean
- 개정 gaejeong
- Portuguese (PT)
- emenda
- Catalan
- esmena
- Czech
- dodatek
- Esperanto
- amendo
- Finnish
- lakimuutos
- Romanian
- amendament
- Serbo-Croatian
- amandman
- Welsh
- gwelliant
Noun that which is added
- Spanish
- enmienda
- German
- Ergänzung
- Portuguese
- emenda
- Russian
- дополне́ние dopolnénije
- Polish
- dodatek
- Swedish
- tillägg
- Hungarian
- kiegészítés
- Portuguese (PT)
- emenda
- Catalan
- esmena
- Danish
- tilføjelse
1 more language
- Finnish
- lisäys
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
A·mend′ment (…), noun
Origin: F. amendement, LL. amendamentum.
1. An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices.
2. In public bodies; Any alternation made or proposed to be made in a bill or motion by adding, changing, substituting, or omitting.
3. Law Correction of an error in a writ or process.
Synonyms: Improvement; reformation; emendation.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54