rendition
Syllables: ren·di·tion/ɹɛnˈdɪʃ(ə)n/
rendition noun: an interpretation or performance of an artwork, especially a musical score or musical work.
Noun
rendition (countable and uncountable, plural renditions)
- An interpretation or performance of an artwork, especially a musical score or musical work.
- Near-synonym: rendering
- The group's debut, Beloved Symphony, featuring light opera renditions of Mozart, Bach and Chopin, was deemed insufficiently classic for inclusion on the classical charts.2011 April 12, Paul Lester, The Guardian
- Synonyms:
- interpretation, rendering
- A given visual reproduction of something.
- Synonyms:
- rendering
- Translation between languages, or between forms of a language; a translated text or work.
- Formal deliverance of a verdict.
- The handing-over of someone wanted for justice who has fled a given jurisdiction.
- Since then, according to his lawyers and relatives, he has been repeatedly beaten, threatened with a firearm and with further rendition to Guantánamo by Ugandan officials, before being questioned by American officials.2011 March 30, Ian Cobain, The Guardian
- Synonyms:
- extradition
- The surrender (of a city, fortress etc.).
- The handing over of a person or thing.
Verb
rendition (third-person singular simple present renditions, present participle renditioning, simple past and past participle renditioned)
- To surrender or hand over (a person or thing); especially, for one jurisdiction to do so to another.
- Records show that only about three hundred fugitive slaves were renditioned to the South between 1850 and secession a decade later.2007, Thomas G. Mitchell, Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 60
rendition meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
rendition in Hindi
- an interpretation or performance of an artwork, especially a musical score or musical work
- प्रतिपादन pratipādan
rendition in Tamil
- இசை, பாடல், வழங்குதிறன், வழங்கல், அளிப்பு, பாத்திரம் முதலியவற்றின் உருவிளக்கம்
rendition in Urdu
- پرداخت, ترجمانی, تسلیم, پیش کرنا
rendition in Bengali
- কোনো শিল্পকর্মের ব্যাখ্যা, পরিবেশনা, বিশেষত কোনো সুরলিপি, সংগীতকর্মের, বিভিন্ন ভাষার মধ্যে, অনূদিত লেখা
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- rendition in Malayalam
- പ്രകടനം, കലാപ്രകടനം, നാടകാഭിനയം, ആവിഷ്കരണം
- rendition in Kannada
- ಅರ್ಪಿಸುವುದು, ಒಪ್ಪಿಸುವುದು, ಅರ್ಪಣ, ಚಿತ್ರಣ
Examples of rendition in a sentence
- That was the most painfully sung rendition of “Fly Me to the Moon” that I’ve ever heard.
- Years ago I heard a fantastic bootleg of that song. It was my favorite rendition.
- The piano teacher's bored look indicated he wasn't paying much attention to his pupil's lackluster rendition of Mozart's Requiem.
Synonyms of rendition
Forms of rendition
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | renditions |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | renditions |
| present participle | renditioning |
| past participle | renditioned |
| past | renditioned |
Origin of rendition
From obsolete French rendition, alteration (after rendre (“to render”)) of reddition (“reddition”). Many senses influenced by render.
Words formed from rendition
Words that rhyme with rendition
- partition
- position
- proposition
- transition
- mission
- condition
- commission
- transmission
- addition
- admission
- attrition
- expedition
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- remission
- exhibition
- submission
- ignition
- inhibition
- inquisition
- intromission
- magician
- omission
- suspicion
- tradition
- dentition
- edition
- patrician
- politician
- tuition
- acquisition
- circumposition
- decommission
- fission
- nutrition
- perdition
- permission
- phonetician
- prohibition
- superposition
- volition
- academician
- aesthetician
- Apician
- clinician
- coalition
- disquisition
- emission
- fruition
- Galician
- on a mission
- optician
- postposition
- premonition
- recommission
- retransition
- sedition
- superstition
- titian
- abligurition
- admonition
- adposition
Questions about rendition
- What does rendition mean?
- Rendition means an interpretation or performance of an artwork, especially a musical score or musical work.
- What is rendition in Hindi?
- Rendition in Hindi is प्रतिपादन (pratipādan). See Rendition meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is rendition?
- Rendition can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce rendition?
- Rendition is pronounced /ɹɛnˈdɪʃ(ə)n/.
- What is the plural of rendition?
- The plural of rendition is renditions.
Words near rendition in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: rendition (page history and authors); rendition (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rendition (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rendition (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rendition (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); rendition (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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