fruition
Syllables: fru·ition/fɹuˈɪʃən/US/fɹuˈɪʃən/
fruition noun: the fulfillment of something worked for.
Noun (1)
fruition (countable and uncountable, plural fruitions)
- The fulfillment of something worked for.
- After six years of hard work, the engineers had brought the project to fruition.
- […] to weare our ſelues & neuer reſt,
Untill we reach the ripeſt fruites of all,
That perfect bliſſe and ſole felicitie,
The ſweet fruition of an earthly crowne.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
- The enjoyment derived from a possession.
Noun (2)
fruition (plural fruitions)
fruition meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
fruition in Hindi
- fruition, giving results
- फलन phalan
fruition in Tamil
- நினைத்ததை சாதித்தல், எய்துதல், சாதனை, நிறைவேற்றம், நிறைவு, முடிப்பு
fruition in Malayalam
- actualization, fulfillment, realization
- കാഫലം, ഫലധാരണം, ഫലവത്താകൽ, ഫലമുണ്ടാകൽ, ഫലസിദ്ധി, ഫലസമ്പത്ത്
fruition in Kannada
- ಫಲಸಾಧನೆ, ಅಭೀಷ್ಟಸಿದ್ಧಿ
Examples of fruition in a sentence
- The myths possess us: through our agony / They work to new fruition.1914, John Jay Chapman, “The Wrath of Achilles. 1. The Embassy to Achilles.”, in Homeric Scenes: Hector’s Farewell and The Wrath of...
- That progress has taken over ten years and £20 million to bring to fruition.2023 December 27, Richard Foster, “New rail freight terminal leads the way”, in RAIL, number 999, page 39:
Forms of fruition
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Origin of fruition
From Latin fruitiō (“enjoyment”). By surface analysis, fruit + -ion.
Erroneously from fruit (though now standard usage)
Words formed from fruition
Phrases with fruition
Words that rhyme with fruition
- partition
- position
- proposition
- transition
- mission
- condition
- commission
- transmission
- addition
- admission
- attrition
- expedition
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- remission
- rendition
- exhibition
- submission
- ignition
- inhibition
- inquisition
- intromission
- magician
- omission
- suspicion
- tradition
- dentition
- edition
- patrician
- politician
- tuition
- acquisition
- circumposition
- decommission
- fission
- nutrition
- perdition
- permission
- phonetician
- prohibition
- superposition
- volition
- academician
- aesthetician
- Apician
- clinician
- coalition
- disquisition
- emission
- Galician
- on a mission
- optician
- postposition
- premonition
- recommission
- retransition
- sedition
- superstition
- titian
- abligurition
- admonition
- adposition
Questions about fruition
- What does fruition mean?
- Fruition means the fulfillment of something worked for.
- What is fruition in Hindi?
- Fruition in Hindi is फलन (phalan). See Fruition meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use fruition in a sentence?
- The myths possess us: through our agony / They work to new fruition.
- What part of speech is fruition?
- Fruition is a noun.
- How do you pronounce fruition?
- Fruition is pronounced /fɹuˈɪʃən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of fruition?
- The plural of fruition is fruitions.
Words near fruition in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fruition (page history and authors); फलन (Hindi) (page history and authors); fruition (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fruition (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); fruition (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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