recommendation
NounUS[rek-uh-muhn-dey-shuhn]/ˌrɛkəmənˈdeɪʃən/5 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (3)recommendations
- something (as a course of action) that is recommended as advisableType of adviceKinds referral
- something that recommends (or expresses commendation of) a person or thing as worthy or desirableSynonyms: testimonialgood wordType of praise, congratulationsKinds character, puff
- any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission“her pleasant personality is already a recommendation”“his wealth was not a passport into the exclusive circles of society”Synonyms: passportType of characteristic
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Translations
Noun act of recommending
- Spanish
- recomendación
- French
- recommandation
- German
- Empfehlung
- Italian
- raccomandazione
- Portuguese
- recomendação
- Turkish
- tavsiye
- Russian
- рекоменда́ция rekomendácija
- Arabic
- تَوْصِيَة tawṣiya
- Chinese
- 建议 jiànyì
- Japanese
- 推薦 suisen
20 more languages
- Dutch
- aanbeveling
- Polish
- rekomendacja
- Swedish
- rekommendation
- Greek
- σύσταση sýstasi
- Korean
- 추천 chucheon
- Indonesian
- rekomendasi
- Hungarian
- ajánlás
- Portuguese (PT)
- recomendação
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 建議 jiànyì
- Albanian
- rekomandim
- Catalan
- recomanació
- Czech
- doporučení
- Finnish
- suositus
- Georgian
- რეკომენდაცია reḳomendacia
- Hebrew
- הַמְלָצָה hamlatsá
- Latvian
- ieteikums
- Lithuanian
- rekomendacija
- Norwegian
- anbefaling
- Romanian
- recomandație
- Serbo-Croatian
- preporuka
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Rec′om·men·da′tion (r?k′?m-m?n-d?′sh?n), noun
Origin: Cf. F. recommandation.
1. The act of recommending.
2. That which recommends, or commends to favor; anything procuring, or tending to procure, a favorable reception, or to secure acceptance and adoption; as, he brought excellent recommendations.
3. The state of being recommended; esteem. rare
The burying of the dead... hath always been had in an extraordinary recommendation amongst the ancient.— North, Sir Thomas
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54