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premeditation

/ˌpɹiː.mɛ.dɪˈteɪ.ʃən/

premeditation noun: the act of planning or plotting something in advance, especially a crime.

Noun

premeditation (countable and uncountable, plural premeditations)

  1. The act of planning or plotting something in advance, especially a crime.

premeditation meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Arabic

premeditation in Tamil

முன் சிந்தனை, முன் திட்டம், முன்னாராய்ச்சி

premeditation in Malayalam

forethought, (advance) planning, pre-planning
മുൻനിശ്ചയം, പൂർവ്വനിശ്ചയം, മൂന്നാലോചന, മുൻവിചാരം, സങ്കേതകം, സങ്കേതനം

premeditation in Arabic

the act of planning or plotting
سبق الإصرار والترصّد

Synonyms of premeditation

Forms of premeditation

pluralpremeditations

Origin of premeditation

Learned borrowing from Latin praemeditātiō.

Words formed from premeditation

Words that rhyme with premeditation

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about premeditation

What does premeditation mean?
Premeditation means the act of planning or plotting something in advance, especially a crime.
What is premeditation in Tamil?
Premeditation in Tamil is முன் சிந்தனை, முன் திட்டம், முன்னாராய்ச்சி. See Premeditation meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is premeditation?
Premeditation is a noun.
How do you pronounce premeditation?
Premeditation is pronounced /ˌpɹiː.mɛ.dɪˈteɪ.ʃən/.
What is the plural of premeditation?
The plural of premeditation is premeditations.

Words near premeditation in the dictionary

  1. premeditatedness
  2. premeditately
  3. premeditates
  4. premeditating
  5. premeditatingly
  6. premeditation
  7. premeditations
  8. premeditative
  9. premeditatively
  10. premeditator
  11. premeditators

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Adapted from Wiktionary: premeditation (page history and authors); premeditation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); premeditation (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset 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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