comprehension
/ˌkɒmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/US/ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/
comprehension noun: a thorough understanding.
Noun
comprehension (countable and uncountable, plural comprehensions)
- A thorough understanding.
- Students will be tested on their comprehension of sentences in the foreign language.
- What appeal to him are the broad visions, the specious comprehension of the social order as a whole which a planned system promises.1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 428
- Synonyms:
- appreciation
- The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.
- A compact syntax for generating a collection in some programming languages, traditionally lists in functional programming languages.
- The inclusion of nonconformists within the Church of England.
- Reading comprehension.
comprehension meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
comprehension in Hindi
- thorough understanding
- समझ samajh, फ़हम faham, फहम phaham
comprehension in Tamil
- புரிதல், கருத்தறிதல், புரிதம், புரிகை, அறிமானம், புரிமானம்
comprehension in Urdu
- thorough understanding
- سَمَجھ samajh, فَہْم fahm
comprehension in Bengali
- comprehension, realization
- গ্রহণ grohon
More languagesFewer languages
- comprehension in Malayalam
- വ്യാപ്തി, ധാരണാശക്തി, ഗ്രഹണശ്കതി, മനസ്സിലാക്കാനുള്ള ശക്തി
- comprehension in Kannada
- ತಿಳಿವಳಿಕೆ, ತಿಳಿಯುವಿಕೆ, ಗ್ರಹಿಸುವಿಕೆ, ಗ್ರಹಿಕೆ
- comprehension in Sanskrit
- संधि saṃdhí, आधार ādhārá
- comprehension in Nepali
- बोध bodh
- comprehension in Pashto
- پوهه póha
- comprehension in Tagalog
- katalusan, talos
- comprehension in Arabic
- فَهْم fahm
- comprehension in Thai
- ความเข้าใจ kwaam-kâo-jai
- comprehension in Vietnamese
- sự hiểu
Examples of comprehension in a sentence
- The answer to the comprehension question can be found in the third line of the accompanying text.
- He's like a human parrot: he resays whatever he's told - without any comprehension of its meaning.
- Teachers testing with informal reading inventories (selected because of comprehension difficulty unrelated to word recognition) were asked to give explanations for the miscomprehensions of their students.
Synonyms of comprehension
Forms of comprehension
| plural | comprehensions |
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Origin of comprehension
Borrowed from Middle French compréhension, from Latin comprehēnsiō (“taking together”), from com- (“with, together”) + prehendō (“take”).
Words formed from comprehension
Questions about comprehension
- What does comprehension mean?
- Comprehension means a thorough understanding.
- What is comprehension in Hindi?
- Comprehension in Hindi is समझ (samajh), फ़हम (faham), फहम (phaham). See Comprehension meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is comprehension?
- Comprehension is a noun.
- How do you pronounce comprehension?
- Comprehension is pronounced /ˌkɒmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/ (UK).
- What is the plural of comprehension?
- The plural of comprehension is comprehensions.
Words near comprehension in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: comprehension (page history and authors); comprehension (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); গ্রহণ (Bengali) (page history and authors); comprehension (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); comprehension (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); आधार (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); پوهه (Pashto) (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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