meditation
A devotional exercise of, or leading to, contemplation.
Other meanings
A contemplative discourse, often on a religious or philosophical subject.
“Her book is less a cookbook than a meditation on the craft of cookery.”
A musical theme treated in a meditative manner.
Synonyms
- speculation
Related words
- beditation
- meditational
- nonmeditation
- mass meditation
- theta meditation
- transcendental meditation
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "meditatio".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “meditation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; 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.