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• kəmpăr'ĭsən
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• Received-Pronunciation: /kəmˈpæɹ.ɪ.sən/
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• /kəmˈpɛɹ.ɪ.sən/ General American, Mary–marry–merry merger, Canada
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• General-American: /kəmˈpæɹ.ɪ.sən/ without the Mary–marry–merry merger
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• kəmpăr'ĭshən nonstandard, corresponding to the misspelling comparision
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• /kəmˈpæɹ.ɪ.ʃən/ nonstandard, corresponding to the misspelling comparision
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• Australian: /kəmˈpæɹ.ɪ.sən/
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• New-Zealand: /kəmˈpɛɹ.ə.sən/
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• CMU ARPABET: K AH0 M P EH1 R AH0 S AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English comparisoun, from Old French comparison, from Latin comparātiō, from comparātus, perfect passive participle of comparō.

177 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: vergelyking — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Albanian: krahasim — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Arabic: مُقَارَنَة (muqārana) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Arabic: مُقَابَلَة (muqābala) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Arabic: تَشْبِيه (tašbīh) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Arabic: مُقَايَسَة (muqāyasa) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Arabic: مُقارَنة (mʊqarənə) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Armenian: համեմատություն (hamematutʻyun) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Azerbaijani: müqayisə — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Belarusian: параўна́нне (parawnánnje) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Bengali: তুলনা (tulna) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Bulgarian: сравне́ние (sravnénie) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Burmese: အနှိုင်း (a.hnuing:) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Catalan: comparació — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Chinese Mandarin: 比較 /比较 (bǐjiào, bǐjiǎo) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Czech: porovnání — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Danish: sammenligning — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Dutch: vergelijking — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Esperanto: komparo — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Finnish: vertailu — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• French: comparaison — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Galician: comparación — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Galician: comparanza — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Georgian: შედარება (šedareba) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• German: Vergleich — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• German: Komparation — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• German: Vergleichen — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• German: Vergleichung — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Greek: σύγκριση (sýgkrisi) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Ancient Greek: σύγκρισις (súnkrisis) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Hebrew: השוואה \ הַשְׁוָאָה (hashva'á) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Hindi: तुलना (tulnā) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Hungarian: összehasonlítás — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Hungarian: összevetés — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Ingrian: rinnoitus — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Italian: paragone — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Italian: confronto — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Italian: comparazione — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Japanese: 比較 (hikaku) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Kazakh: салыстыру (salystyru) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Khmer: ពាក្យប្រៀប (piek priəp) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Khmer: ប្រៀប (priəp) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Korean: 비교 (bigyo) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Lao: ການປຽບທຽບ (kān pīap thīap) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Latin: comparātiō — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Latvian: salīdzināšana — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Latvian: salīdzinājums — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Lithuanian: lyginimas — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Macedonian: споредба (sporedba) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Malayalam: താരതമ്യം (tāratamyaṁ) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Māori: whakatairitenga — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Middle English: comparisoun — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Mongolian: харьцуулалт (xarʹcuulalt) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Norman: compathaison — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Norwegian Bokmål: sammenligning — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Old English: wiþmetennes — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Persian: مقایسه (moqâyese) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Persian: تشبیه (tašbih) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Polish: porównanie — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Portuguese: comparação — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Romanian: comparație — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Russian: сравне́ние (sravnénije) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Russian: сра́внивание (srávnivanije) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Serbo-Croatian: поређење — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Serbo-Croatian: у̏споредба — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Serbo-Croatian: poređenje — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Serbo-Croatian: ȕsporedba — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Slovak: porovnanie — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Slovene: primerjava — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Spanish: comparación — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Spanish: comparanza — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Swedish: jämförelse — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Tajik: муқоиса (muqoyisa) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Tamil: ஒப்பீடு (oppīṭu) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Thai: การเปรียบเทียบ (gaan-bprìiap-tîiap) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Tibetan: འགྲན་བསྡུར ('gran bsdur) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Tibetan: མཉམ་བསྡུར (mnyam bsdur) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Tibetan: དཔེ་ཉེར་འཇལ (dpe nyer 'jal) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Tibetan: དཔེ་ཟླ (dpe zla) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Tibetan: ཚད་སྡུར (tshad sdur) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Turkish: karşılaştırma — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Turkish: mukayese — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Turkish: salıştırma — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Ottoman Turkish: تطبیق (tatbik) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Ukrainian: порі́вняння (porívnjannja) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Urdu: مُوَازَنَہ (mūāzana) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Urdu: اَنْدَازَہ (andāza) — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Uzbek: muqoyasa — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Vietnamese: sự so sánh — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Walloon: rimetaedje — act of comparing or the state of being compared
• Afrikaans: vergelyking — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Bulgarian: сравне́ние (sravnénie) — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Catalan: comparació — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Czech: porovnání — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Dutch: vergelijking — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Finnish: vertailu — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• French: comparaison — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• German: Vergleich — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• German: Abgleich — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• German: Gegenüberstellung — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Greek: σύγκριση (sýgkrisi) — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Ancient Greek: σύγκρισις (súnkrisis) — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Hebrew: השוואה \ הַשְׁוָאָה (hashva'á) — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Hungarian: összehasonlítás — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Indonesian: komparasi — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Indonesian: perbandingan — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Ingrian: rinnoitus — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Irish: comparáid — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Italian: comparazione — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Lithuanian: palyginimas — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Macedonian: спо́редба (spóredba) — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Malay: perbandingan — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Māori: whakaritenga — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Middle English: comparisoun — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Navajo: ałhąąh sinil — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Norman: compathaison — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Old English: wiþmetennes — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Polish: porównanie — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Portuguese: comparação — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Russian: сравне́ние (sravnénije) — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Serbo-Croatian: поређење — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Serbo-Croatian: у̏споредба — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Serbo-Croatian: poređenje — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Serbo-Croatian: ȕsporedba — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Slovak: porovnanie — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Slovene: primerjava — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Spanish: comparación — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Spanish: comparanza — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Swedish: jämförelse — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Tamil: ஒப்பீடு (oppīṭu) — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Ukrainian: порі́вняння (porívnjannja) — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Urdu: مُوَازَنَہ (mūāzana) — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Urdu: اَنْدَازَہ (andāza) — evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
• Afrikaans: vergelykbaarheid — state of being similar or alike
• Bulgarian: схо́дство (shódstvo) — state of being similar or alike
• Dutch: gelijkenis — state of being similar or alike
• Finnish: samanlaisuus — state of being similar or alike
• Finnish: samankaltaisuus — state of being similar or alike
• French: comparaison — state of being similar or alike
• German: Abgleich — state of being similar or alike
• German: Vergleichbarkeit — state of being similar or alike
• Hebrew: השוואה \ הַשְׁוָאָה (hashva'á) — state of being similar or alike
• Hungarian: hasonlóság — state of being similar or alike
• Macedonian: сли́чност (slíčnost) — state of being similar or alike
• Middle English: comparisoun — state of being similar or alike
• Norman: compathaison — state of being similar or alike
• Polish: porównanie — state of being similar or alike
• Portuguese: comparação — state of being similar or alike
• Russian: схо́дство (sxódstvo) — state of being similar or alike
• Spanish: comparación — state of being similar or alike
• Spanish: semejanza — state of being similar or alike
• Spanish: parangón — state of being similar or alike
• Spanish: paragón — state of being similar or alike
• Swedish: likhet — state of being similar or alike
• Tamil: ஒப்பு (oppu) — state of being similar or alike
• Afrikaans: trappe van vergelyking — ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees
• Bulgarian: степенуване (stepenuvane) — ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees
• Czech: stupňování — ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees
• Danish: gradbøjning — ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees
• Dutch: trappen van vergelijking — ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees
• Faroese: stigbending — ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees
• Finnish: komparaatio — ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees
• French: degrés de comparaison — ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees
• German: Komparation — ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees
• German: Steigerung — ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees
• Hungarian: fokozás — ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees
• Icelandic: stigbreyting — ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees
• Irish: comparáid — ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees
• Middle English: comparisoun — ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees
• Polish: stopniowanie — ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees
• Polish: gradacja — ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees
• Polish: klimaks — ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees
• Portuguese: comparação — ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees
• Russian: сте́пени сравне́ния (stépeni sravnénija) — ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees
• Slovak: stupňovanie — ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees
• Swedish: komparation — ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees
• Ukrainian: ступе́ні порі́вняння (stupéni porívnjannja) — ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees