participation
NounUS[pahr-tis-uh-pey-shuhn]/pɑrˌtɪsəˈpeɪʃən/5 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (2)
- the act of sharing in the activities of a group“the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities”Synonyms: engagementinvolvementinvolutionType of group actionKinds intervention, commitment, group participation
- the condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows or partners etc.)Synonyms: involvementType of condition, status
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Translations
Noun act of participating
- Spanish
- participación
- French
- participation
- German
- Teilnahme
- Italian
- partecipazione
- Portuguese
- participação
- Turkish
- katılım
- Russian
- уча́стие učástije
- Arabic
- مُشَارَكَة mušāraka
- Chinese
- 参加 cānjiā
- Japanese
- 参加 sanka
22 more languages
- Dutch
- deelname
- Polish
- udział
- Swedish
- deltagande
- Greek
- συμμετοχή symmetochí
- Korean
- 참가 chamga
- Indonesian
- partisipasi
- Hungarian
- részvétel
- Portuguese (PT)
- participação
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 參加 cānjiā
- Catalan
- participació
- Czech
- účast
- Danish
- deltagelse
- Esperanto
- partopreno
- Finnish
- osallistuminen
- Georgian
- მონაწილეობა monac̣ileoba
- Icelandic
- þátttaka
- Norwegian
- deltakelse
- Romanian
- participare
- Serbo-Croatian
- participacija
- Swahili
- ushiriki
- Welsh
- cyfranogiad
- Yiddish
- אָנטיילונג onteylung
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Par·tic′i·pa′tion noun
Origin: F. participation, L. participatio.
1. The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows.
These deities are so by participation.— Bp. Edward Stillingfleet
What an honor, that God should admit us into such a blessed participation of himself!— Francis Atterbury
2. Distribution; division into shares. obsolete Raleigh.
3. Community; fellowship; association. obsolete William Shakespeare
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54