ordination
Syllables: or·di·na·tion/ˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃn̩/US/ˌɔɹdəˈneɪʃn̩/
ordination noun: the act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
Noun
ordination (countable and uncountable, plural ordinations)
- The act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
- The ceremony in which a priest is consecrated, considered a sacrament in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
- the ceremony in which a bhikkhu or bhikkhuni is ordained into the sangha
- A statistical technique for ordering data from a large number of sites or populations by arranging the data as points in a multidimensional coordinate frame, in which patterns can be discerned; an instance of this.
- Coordinate term: cluster analysis
- Synonyms:
- gradient analysis
ordination meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
ordination in Hindi
- ordination
- दीक्षा dīkṣā
ordination in Tamil
- நிலைப்படுத்தல், முறைப்படுத்தல்
ordination in Urdu
- ordination
- نفاذ فرمان nafāz-e-farmān
ordination in Bengali
- যাজক পদে অভিষেক অনুষ্ঠান
More languagesFewer languages
- ordination in Malayalam
- പട്ടം കൊടുക്കൽ, സ്ഥിരപ്പെടുത്തൽ, വശീകരണം
- ordination in Punjabi
- ਆਰਡੀਨੇਸ਼ਨ
- ordination in Tagalog
- ordenasyon
- ordination in Arabic
- رِسامة risāma
- ordination in Indonesian
- penahbisan
Examples of ordination in a sentence
- After his ordination, he was sent as a Missionary to Guangdong, China.
- Father Pavel had recently returned from his ordination in Russia.
- Do you mean that the ordination of the A.M.E.
Synonyms of ordination
- gradient analysis
Forms of ordination
| plural | ordinations |
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Origin of ordination
From Middle French ordination, from Old French ordinacion, from Latin ordinatio.
Words formed from ordination
Phrases with ordination
Words that rhyme with ordination
- station
- collation
- accommodation
- presentation
- derivation
- information
- modulation
- translation
- application
- fixation
- generation
- orientation
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- citation
- combination
- communication
- conjugation
- constellation
- determination
- elevation
- operation
- relation
- reservation
- alternation
- condensation
- conversation
- deviation
- excavation
- foliation
- formation
- foundation
- incarnation
- interpretation
- representation
- retardation
- speculation
- termination
- abbreviation
- adaptation
- articulation
- bifurcation
- concentration
- congregation
- declination
- degradation
- expectation
- extenuation
- gradation
- observation
- population
- preparation
- reconciliation
- rotation
- separation
- situation
- vexation
- vindication
- accumulation
- administration
- aggregation
- appropriation
Questions about ordination
- What does ordination mean?
- Ordination means the act of ordaining or the state of being ordained.
- What is ordination in Hindi?
- Ordination in Hindi is दीक्षा (dīkṣā). See Ordination meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is ordination?
- Ordination is a noun.
- How do you pronounce ordination?
- Ordination is pronounced /ˌɔːdɪˈneɪʃn̩/ (UK).
- What is the plural of ordination?
- The plural of ordination is ordinations.
Words near ordination in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ordination (page history and authors); दीक्षा (Hindi) (page history and authors); ordination (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); نفاذ فرمان (Urdu) (page history and authors); ordination (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ordination (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ordination (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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