Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

assimilation

/əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.19 in modern English

Syllables: as-sim-i-la-tion
IPA: /əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/

14

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The metabolic conversion of nutrients into tissue.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The absorption of new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A sound change process by which the phonetics of a speech segment becomes more like that of another segment in a word (or at a word boundary), so that a change of phoneme occurs.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

The adoption, by a minority group, of the customs and attitudes of the dominant culture.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"--France swarms with Gracchus's and Publicolas, who by imaginary assimilations of acts, which a change of manners has rendered different, fancy themselves more than equal to their prototypes."
"His work generally is full of assimilations and quotations from art that is not Mexican, and he's said, "Nationalism has nothing to do with my work."
"We have great need to be careful in these assimilations; some kinds of food are rich but not easily digested."
"Hence, rather than being the result of mishearing and assimilation, the application of Hobson-Jobson to the Muharram was intentionally disparaging."
"After centuries of British cultural assimilation, a majority of Irish now speak English instead of Irish."
"Assimilation was one of the words they used for Indians becoming white in order to survive, in order that they might not be killed for being Indians."

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin assimilatio. By surface analysis, assimilate + -ion.

Usage

Inflected Forms

assimilations (plural)

Derived Forms

antiassimilation assimilational assimilationism assimilationist bioassimilation disassimilation malassimilation nonassimilation photoassimilation reassimilation

Phrases

regressive assimilation anticipatory assimilation progressive assimilation perseverative assimilation benevolent assimilation language assimilation left-to-right assimilation obliterative assimilation

Frequently Paired Words

acculturation liaison mutation rendaku sandhi

Synonyms

acculturation absorption

Antonyms

dissimilation

Rhymes With

information education situation population station association administration operation organization nation location application

Questions

How do you pronounce assimilation?: The recorded pronunciation is /əˌsɪməˈleɪʃən/.
What does assimilation mean?: The act of assimilating or the state of being assimilated.
Where does assimilation come from?: Borrowed from Medieval Latin assimilatio. By surface analysis, assimilate + -ion.

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