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syncopations

syncopations is the plural of syncopation.

Meaning of syncopation

Noun

syncopation (usually uncountable, plural syncopations)

  1. (usually) The contraction of a word by means of loss or omission of sounds or syllables in the middle thereof.
  2. (usually) The quality of a rhythm being somehow unexpected, in that it deviates from the strict succession of regularly spaced strong and weak beats in a meter.

Questions about syncopations

What is syncopations the plural of?
Syncopations is the plural of syncopation.

Words near syncopations in the dictionary

  1. syncopates
  2. syncopating
  3. syncopation
  4. syncopational
  5. syncopationally
  6. syncopations
  7. syncopative
  8. syncopator
  9. syncopators
  10. syncope
  11. syncopes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: syncopations (page history and authors); syncopation (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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