noun
Meaning 1
The deliberate omission of something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
elision
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ɪˈlɪʒ.(ə)n̩/
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/ɪˈlɪz.j(ə)n̩/
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noun
Meaning 2
The omission of a letter or syllable between two words or inside a word; sometimes marked with an apostrophe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
Examples
- See also: contraction, apheresis, apocope, syncope
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
a deliberate act of omission
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: exception, exclusion
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: omission
noun
Meaning 4
omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: omission, deletion
History
Etymology
From Latin ēlīsiō (“striking out, forcing out”) (whence -ion (“noun suffix denoting action, result, process, state, condition”)), from ēlīsus (“knocked out, forced out”), past participle of ēlīdō (“to knock, dash or strike out”) (whence elide), from ex- (“out, away”) + laedō (“to strike, collide, hurt”) (whence e- (“assimilated form of ex-”)).
Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 省略 (shěnglüè) — deliberate omission
- Dutch: weglating — deliberate omission
- Finnish: sivuuttaminen — deliberate omission
- Finnish: pois jättäminen — deliberate omission
- German: (bewusste) Auslassung — deliberate omission
- German: (bewusste) Weglassung — deliberate omission
- Macedonian: испу́штање (ispúštanje) — deliberate omission
- Russian: упуще́ние (upuščénije) — deliberate omission
- Arabic: إِسْقَاط (ʔisqāṭ) — the omission of a letter or syllable
- Arabic: حَذْف (ḥaḏf) — the omission of a letter or syllable
- Azerbaijani: səsdüşümü — the omission of a letter or syllable
- Chinese Mandarin: 元音省略 (yuányīn shěnglüè) — the omission of a letter or syllable
- Chinese Mandarin: 音節省略 /音节省略 (yīnjié shěnglüè) — the omission of a letter or syllable
- Chinese Mandarin: 吞音 (tūnyīn) — the omission of a letter or syllable
- Dutch: elisie — the omission of a letter or syllable
- Esperanto: elizio — the omission of a letter or syllable
- Finnish: elisio — the omission of a letter or syllable
- French: élision — the omission of a letter or syllable
- German: Elision — the omission of a letter or syllable
- Greek: έκθλιψη (ékthlipsi) — the omission of a letter or syllable
- Icelandic: brottfall — the omission of a letter or syllable
- Japanese: エリジオン (erijion) — the omission of a letter or syllable
- Macedonian: ели́зија (elízija) — the omission of a letter or syllable
- Polish: elizja — the omission of a letter or syllable
- Portuguese: elisão — the omission of a letter or syllable
- Russian: эли́зия (elízija) — the omission of a letter or syllable
- Scottish Gaelic: bàthadh — the omission of a letter or syllable
- Spanish: elisión — the omission of a letter or syllable
- Swedish: elision — the omission of a letter or syllable
- Ukrainian: елі́зія (elízija) — the omission of a letter or syllable
- Welsh: seingoll — the omission of a letter or syllable
Real reading context