translation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: trans=la=tion
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

translation, n. [F. translation, L. translatio a transferring, translation, version. See Translate, and cf. Tralation.].

•  The act of translating, removing, or transferring; removal; also, the state of being translated or removed; as, the translation of Enoch; the translation of a bishop.  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which is obtained by translating something a version; as, a translation of the Scriptures.  [1913 Webster]
•  A transfer of meaning in a word or phrase, a metaphor; a tralation.  B. Jonson.  [1913 Webster]
•  Transfer of meaning by association; association of ideas.  A. Tucker.  [1913 Webster]
•  Motion in which all the points of the moving body have at any instant the same velocity and direction of motion; -- opposed to rotation.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

translation, n.
1 the act or an instance of translating.
2 a written or spoken expression of the meaning of a word, speech, book, etc. in another language.

Derivative

translational adj. translationally adv.

THESAURUS

translation

alteration, amplification, apotheosis, ascension, assumption, avatar, bilingual text, carrying, catabolism, catalysis, change, clavis, communication, conduction, consubstantiation, contagion, convection, conversion, conveyance, crib, decipherment, decoding, delivery, deportation, diapedesis, diffusion, dispatch, displacement, dissemination, elucidation, explanation, export, exportation, expulsion, extradition, faithful translation, forwarding, free translation, gathering, gloss, glossary, heterotopia, import, importation, interchange, interlinear, interlinear translation, interpretation, key, loose translation, metabolism, metagenesis, metamorphism, metamorphosis, metaphrase, metastasis, metathesis, metempsychosis, migration, movement, moving, mutant, mutated form, mutation, mutual transfer, osmosis, paraphrase, passage, passing over, perfusion, permutation, pony, reincarnation, rendering, rendition, restatement, resurrection, rewording, rewrite, rewriting, sending, shipment, shipping, sport, spread, spreading, the Ascension, the Assumption, transanimation, transcription, transduction, transfer, transfer of property, transference, transferral, transfiguration, transfigurement, transformation, transformism, transfusion, transit, transition, transliteration, translocation, transmigration, transmigration of souls, transmission, transmittal, transmittance, transmogrification, transmutation, transplacement, transplantation, transport, transportation, transposal, transposition, transubstantiation, travel, trot

ROGET THESAURUS

translation

Heaven

N heaven, kingdom of heaven, kingdom of God, heavenly kingdom, throne of God, presence of God, inheritance of the saints in light, Paradise, Eden, Zion, abode of the blessed, celestial bliss, glory, Olympus, Elysium (paradise), Elysian fields, Arcadia, bowers of bliss, garden of the Hesperides, third heaven, Valhalla, Walhalla (Scandinavian), Nirvana (Buddhist), happy hunting grounds, Alfardaws, Assama, Falak al aflak the highest heaven (Mohammedan), future state, eternal home, eternal reward, resurrection, translation, resuscitation, apotheosis, deification, heavenly, celestial, supernal, unearthly, from on high, paradisiacal, beatific, elysian, looks through nature up to the nature's god, the great world's altarstairs, that slope through darkness up to God, the treasury of everlasting joy, vigeur de dessus.

Churchdom

N church, churchdom, ministry, apostleship, priesthood, prelacy, hierarch, church government, christendom, pale of the church, clericalism, sacerdotalism, episcopalianism, ultramontanism, theocracy, ecclesiology, ecclesiologist, priestcraft, odium theologicum, monachism, monachy, monasticism, monkhood, pontificate, primacy, archbishopric, archiepiscopacy, prelacy, bishopric, bishopdom, episcopate, episcopacy, see, diocese, deanery, stall, canonry, canonicate, prebend, prebendaryship, benefice, incumbency, glebe, advowson, living, cure, rectorship, vicariate, vicarship, deaconry, deaconship, curacy, chaplain, chaplaincy, chaplainship, cardinalate, cardinalship, abbacy, presbytery, holy orders, ordination, institution, consecration, induction, reading in, preferment, translation, presentation, popedom, the Vatican, the apostolic see, religious sects, council, conclave, convocation, synod, consistory, chapter, vestry, sanhedrim, conge d'elire, ecclesiastical courts, consistorial court, court of Arches, ecclesiastical, ecclesiological, clerical, sacerdotal, priestly, prelatical, pastoral, ministerial, capitular, theocratic, hierarchical, archiepiscopal, episcopal, episcopalian, canonical, monastic, monachal, monkish, abbatial, abbatical, Anglican, pontifical, papal, apostolic, Roman, Popish, ultramontane, priest-ridden.

Transference

N transfer, transference, translocation, elocation, displacement, metastasis, metathesis, removal, remotion, amotion, relegation, deportation, asportation, extradition, conveyance, draft, carrying, carriage, convection, conduction, contagion, transfer, transit, transition, passage, ferry, gestation, portage, porterage, carting, cartage, shoveling, vection, vecture, vectitation, shipment, freight, wafture, transmission, transport, transportation, importation, exportation, transumption, transplantation, translation, shifting, dodging, dispersion, transposition, traction, drift, transferred, drifted, movable, portable, portative, mailable, contagious, from hand to hand, from pillar to post, on the way, by the way, on the road, on the wing, under way, in transit, on course, as one goes, in transitu, en route, chemin faisant, en passant, in mid progress, in mid course.

Interpretation

N interpretation, definition, explanation, explication, solution, answer, rationale, plain interpretation, simple interpretation, strict interpretation, meaning, translation, rendering, rendition, redition, literal translation, free translation, key, secret, clew, clavis, crib, pony, trot, exegesis, expounding, exposition, hermeneutics, comment, commentary, inference, illustration, exemplification, gloss, annotation, scholium, note, elucidation, dilucidation, eclaircissement, mot d'enigme, symptomatology, semiology, semeiology, semiotics, metoposcopy, physiognomy, paleography, oneirology acception, acceptation, acceptance, light, reading, lection, construction, version, equivalent, equivalent meaning, synonym, paraphrase, metaphrase, convertible terms, apposition, dictionary, polyglot, explanatory, expository, explicative, explicatory, exegetical, construable, polyglot, literal, paraphrastic, metaphrastic, consignificative, synonymous, equivalent, in explanation, that is to say, id est, videlicet, to wit, namely, in other words, literally, strictly speaking, in plain, in plainer terms, in plainer words, in plainer English, more simply.