Word.ws English Dictionary

initiations

initiations is the plural of initiation.

Meaning of initiation

Noun

initiation (countable and uncountable, plural initiations)

  1. The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced.
    • initiation into a society
    Synonyms:
    beginning, start
  2. The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced into any society; mode of entrance into an organized body; especially, the rite of admission into a secret society or order.
  3. The first step of transcription or of transduction.

Phrases with initiations

Questions about initiations

What is initiations the plural of?
Initiations is the plural of initiation.

Words near initiations in the dictionary

  1. initiation ceremony
  2. initiation codon
  3. initiation codons
  4. initiational
  5. initiationism
  6. initiations
  7. initiative
  8. initiatively
  9. initiativeness
  10. initiatives
  11. initiator

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: initiations (page history and authors); initiation (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “initiations.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/initiations. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.