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attestation

Syllables: at·tes·ta·tion/ˌæt.ɛˈsteɪ.ʃən//ˌæt.ɛˈsteɪ.ʃən/

attestation noun: a thing that serves to bear witness, confirm, or authenticate; validation, verification, documentation.

Noun

attestation (countable and uncountable, plural attestations)

  1. A thing that serves to bear witness, confirm, or authenticate; validation, verification, documentation.
  2. A confirmation or authentication.
  3. The process, performed by accountants or auditors, of providing independent opinion on published financial and other business records of an enterprise, public agency, or other organization.
  4. (word, word form, or word meaning) An appearance in print or otherwise recorded on a permanent medium.
    • A historical dictionary cannot do this though it cannot also neglect this aspect because the attestation of a rare meaning is bound to be very limited.1972, Indian Linguistics, volumes 33-34, Linguistic Society of India, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 237
    • The eastern-most attestation of Sl skola in the meaning of synagogue appears to be in Smolensk Russian.1987, Paul Wexler, Explorations in Judeo-Slavic Linguistics, →ISBN, page 125

attestation meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada

attestation in Tamil

சான்றொப்பமிடு, சான்றொப்பம், தகை உரை, அறிசான்று, சான்று அளித்தல், உறுதியளித்த்ல்

attestation in Urdu

attestation, ascertainment, proof, verification
اثبات isbāt
attestation; countersignature
تصدیق tasdīq

attestation in Bengali

attestation, certification, verification, confirmation; the act of making something true or official
সত্যায়ন śottaẏon

attestation in Kannada

ಅನುಪ್ರಮಾಣನ, ದೃಢೀಕರಣ
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attestation in Punjabi
ਸ਼ਾਹਦੀ śāhdī
attestation in Persian
گواه govâh, شاهد šâhed

Examples of attestation in a sentence

  • So something must have been developing over long periods empty of attestation; and whatever it was, it must (by principles to be discussed in the next section) have been a language of the usual kind.1997, Roger Lass, Historical Linguistics and Language Change, page 23:
  • For each word, the date of its first attestation in the English language, as documented in the Oxford English Dictionary, and its frequency of occurrence in the British National Corpus are given.2009, Ingo Plag with Maria Braun, Sabine Lappe, and Mareile Schramm, Introduction to English Linguistics, page 110:
  • In the first edition this is generally chronological, i.e. following the earliest date of attestation for each sense2012, Alexander Bergs, English Historical Linguistics, volume 2, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1154:

Forms of attestation

pluralattestations

Plural of attestation: attestations

Origin of attestation

From Middle French attestation, from Latin attestātiō; by surface analysis, attest + -ation.

Words formed from attestation

Words that rhyme with attestation

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Questions about attestation

What does attestation mean?
Attestation means a thing that serves to bear witness, confirm, or authenticate; validation, verification, documentation.
What is attestation in Tamil?
Attestation in Tamil is சான்றொப்பமிடு, சான்றொப்பம், தகை உரை. See Attestation meaning in Tamil.
How do you use attestation in a sentence?
So something must have been developing over long periods empty of attestation; and whatever it was, it must (by principles to be discussed in the next section) have been a language of the usual kind.
What part of speech is attestation?
Attestation is a noun.
How do you pronounce attestation?
Attestation is pronounced /ˌæt.ɛˈsteɪ.ʃən/ (UK).
What is the plural of attestation?
The plural of attestation is attestations.

Words near attestation in the dictionary

  1. attest
  2. attestabilities
  3. attestability
  4. attestable
  5. attestably
  6. attestation
  7. attestations
  8. attestative
  9. attested
  10. attestedly
  11. attestedness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: attestation (page history and authors); attestation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); اثبات (Urdu) (page history and authors); সত্যায়ন (Bengali) (page history and authors); attestation (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਸ਼ਾਹਦੀ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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