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re-creation

re-creation is the alternative form of recreation.

Meaning of recreation

Noun (1)

recreation (countable and uncountable, plural recreations)

  1. Any activity, such as play, that amuses, diverts or stimulates.
    • The ordinary recreations which we have in winter, and in most solitary times busy our minds with, are cards, tables and dice, shovelboard, chess-play, the philosopher's game, small trunks, shuttlecock […]1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...
    Synonyms:
    leisure

Noun (2)

recreation (plural recreations)

  1. The process of creating something again.
  2. The result of this process.
    • Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]2007, Baxter's Practical Works, Volume 1: A Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases ...

Forms of re-creation

pluralre-creations

Origin of re-creation

From re- + creation [early 16th century].

Questions about re-creation

What is re-creation the alternative form of?
Re-creation is the alternative form of recreation.

Words near re-creation in the dictionary

  1. re-creatable
  2. re-create
  3. re-created
  4. re-creates
  5. re-creating
  6. re-creation
  7. re-creations
  8. re-creative
  9. re-cross-examination
  10. re-cross-examinations
  11. re-cultivate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-creation (page history and authors); recreation (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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