fruition
/fɹuˈɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.22 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The condition of bearing fruit.
Example Sentences
- "After six years of hard work, the engineers had brought the project to fruition."
- "[…] to weare our ſelues & neuer reſt, Untill we reach the ripeſt fruites of all, That perfect bliſſe and ſole felicitie, The ſweet fruition of an earthly crowne."
- "Perhaps,—for the Divine purpose runs through every aim of our being,—the disappointment and the endurance are but sent to raise those hopes above, which else might cling too fondly to their fruition below."
- "The myths possess us: through our agony / They work to new fruition."
- "Largely by reason of the persistence of John Crevallier Cobbold, a leading townsman and a member of a respected Suffolk family, the scheme was brought to fruition and by an Act dated July 19, 1844, the Eastern Union Railway came into existence."
- "That progress has taken over ten years and £20 million to bring to fruition. But, as Mands explains, the journey has been one that HSG has been almost obligated to undertake. "First and foremost, this is an environmental project," she says."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /fɹuˈɪʃən/
- British English: /fɹuˈɪʃən/