interpretation
An act of interpreting or explaining something unclear; a translation; a version.
Example
“The interpretation of a dream, or of an enigma”
Other meanings
A sense given by an interpreter; an exposition or explanation given; meaning.
“Commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.”
The discipline or study of translating one spoken or signed language into another (as opposed to translation, which concerns itself with written language).
Synonyms
- reading
- version
Related words
- counterinterpretation
- interpretational
- interpretationism
- interpretationist
- photointerpretation
- urinterpretation
- misinterpretation
- noninterpretation
- overinterpretation
- reinterpretation
- underinterpretation
- Bohm interpretation
Word history
From Latin "interpretātiō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “interpretation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.