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recreations

recreations is the plural 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 ...

Questions about recreations

What is recreations the plural of?
Recreations is the plural of recreation.

Words near recreations in the dictionary

  1. recreationalists
  2. recreationally
  3. recreationism
  4. recreationist
  5. recreationists
  6. recreations
  7. recreative
  8. recreatively
  9. recreativeness
  10. recreatives
  11. recreator

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