How do you pronounce criterion?

The recorded pronunciation is /kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/.

criterion

/kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.46 in modern English

Syllables: cri-te-ri-on
IPA: /kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/

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Meaning

noun

A standard, test, or requirement by which individual things or people may be compared and judged; a gauge.

Example Sentences

"Near-synonym: benchmark"
"criterion of choice, of decision, of selection"
"Knowledge has come to her too soon—knowledge of evil, unqualified by the general charities which longer experience infallibly brings; but her age has lent its own freshness to this first great emotion; it becomes unconsciously a criterion, and the judgment is harsh, because the remembrance is bitter."
"The Enlightment worldview, which considered the order of "Nature" as a basis and, at the same time, the subject of explorations of scientific natural sciences, has, at the same time, considered this order as a criterion of the artistically-aesthetic qualities of art. From an "ideological" point of view, it liberated art from its feudal religious and courtly servitude."
"Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?"

Etymology

From New Latin criterion, from Ancient Greek κριτήριον (kritḗrion, “a test, a means of judging”), from κριτής (kritḗs, “judge”), from κρίνω (krínō, “to judge”); see critic.

Origin

Source language: Ancient Greek

Word Breakdown

Root: *krey-, criterion, κριτήριον

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/
British English: /kɹaɪˈtɪə.ɹi.ən/

Inflected Forms

criteria (plural) criterions (plural, rare) criteria (alternative) criterium (alternative)

Derived Forms

bicriterion criteriology criterionless metacriterion multicriterion noncriterion subcriterion tricriterion

Phrases

Akaike information criterion Bradford Hill criteria Bradford Hill criterion Conway criterion criterion of embarrassment criterion of verifiability criterion of verification Euler's criterion

Frequently Paired Words

criterial crisis critic criticize critical

Synonyms

benchmark standard measure touchstone

Rhymes With

syrian nigerian presbyterian siberian algerian assyrian shakespearean iberian hyperion valerian hanoverian illyrian