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treatment

noun · 11 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈtɹiːtmənt/
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  • CMU ARPABET: T R IY1 T M AH0 N T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The process or manner of treating someone or something.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • He still has nightmares resulting from the abusive treatment he received from his captors.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Medical care for an illness or injury.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • A treatment or cure is applied after a medical problem has already started.
  • Cancer survivors who got radiation treatments as children have nearly twice the risk of developing diabetes as adults.
  • The change is due largely to the increased availability of antiretroviral treatment.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: course

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable

Topics: broadcasting, film, media, television

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

entertainment; treat

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

harsh punishment; retribution

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, euphemistic, uncountable

Examples

  • He’s been a naughty boy, so give him a good treatment.
  • Even if you supported the socialist regime, your class background often meant you were going to get the treatment regardless.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: intervention

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: care, attention, aid, tending

Narrower terms: medical care, medical aid, massage, modality, detoxification, chiropractic, fomentation, naturopathy, naprapathy, orthodontic treatment, orthoptics, osteopathy, osteoclasis, acupuncture, stylostixis, acupressure, G-Jo, shiatsu, autogenic therapy, autogenic training, autogenics, hydropathy, hydrotherapy, rest-cure

9

noun

Meaning 9

the management of someone or something

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the handling of prisoners
  • the treatment of water sewage
  • the right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: handling

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: management, direction

Narrower terms: bioremediation, dealing

10

noun

Meaning 10

a manner of dealing with something artistically

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • his treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: artistic style, idiom

11

noun

Meaning 11

an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic
  • his treatment of the race question is badly biased

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: discussion, discourse

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: communication, communicating

Narrower terms: detail, dilation, consideration, talk, expansion, enlargement, elaboration

History

Etymology

From treat + -ment. Compare French traitement.

Across languages

Translations

149 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: behandeling — process or manner of treating
  • Arabic: مُعَامَلَة (muʕāmala) — process or manner of treating
  • Azerbaijani: davranış — process or manner of treating
  • Belarusian: абыхо́джанне (abyxódžannje) — process or manner of treating
  • Bulgarian: обработка (obrabotka) — process or manner of treating
  • Bulgarian: третиране (tretirane) — process or manner of treating
  • Catalan: tractament — process or manner of treating
  • Chinese Mandarin: 處理 /处理 (chǔlǐ) — process or manner of treating
  • Czech: zacházení — process or manner of treating
  • Danish: behandling — process or manner of treating
  • Dutch: behandeling — process or manner of treating
  • Esperanto: pritraktado — process or manner of treating
  • Esperanto: trakto — process or manner of treating
  • Esperanto: traktado — process or manner of treating
  • Finnish: kohtelu — process or manner of treating
  • Finnish: käsittely — process or manner of treating
  • French: traitement — process or manner of treating
  • Friulian: tratament — process or manner of treating
  • Galician: tratamento — process or manner of treating
  • German: Behandeln — process or manner of treating
  • German: Behandlung — process or manner of treating
  • German: Umgang — process or manner of treating
  • Greek: μεταχείριση (metacheírisi) — process or manner of treating
  • Greek: συμπεριφορά (symperiforá) — process or manner of treating
  • Greek: αντιμετώπιση (antimetópisi) — process or manner of treating
  • Haitian Creole: tretman — process or manner of treating
  • Hindi: उपचार (upcār) — process or manner of treating
  • Hindi: चिकित्सा (cikitsā) — process or manner of treating
  • Hungarian: bánásmód — process or manner of treating
  • Indonesian: perlakuan — process or manner of treating
  • Italian: trattamento — process or manner of treating
  • Japanese: 処理 (shori) — process or manner of treating
  • Korean: 대우 (dae'u) — process or manner of treating
  • Korean: 처리 (cheori) — process or manner of treating
  • Kyrgyz: мамиле (mamile) — process or manner of treating
  • Latin: tractātiō — process or manner of treating
  • Malay: layanan — process or manner of treating
  • Malayalam: പെരുമാറ്റം (perumāṟṟaṁ) — process or manner of treating
  • Norwegian Bokmål: medfart — process or manner of treating
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: medfart — process or manner of treating
  • Persian: درمان (darmân) — process or manner of treating
  • Polish: traktowanie — process or manner of treating
  • Portuguese: tratamento — process or manner of treating
  • Romanian: tratament — process or manner of treating
  • Russian: обраще́ние (obraščénije) — process or manner of treating
  • Russian: обхожде́ние (obxoždénije) — process or manner of treating
  • Serbo-Croatian: tretman — process or manner of treating
  • Serbo-Croatian: postupanje — process or manner of treating
  • Slovak: zaobchádzanie — process or manner of treating
  • Spanish: trato — process or manner of treating
  • Swedish: behandling — process or manner of treating
  • Telugu: చికిత్స (cikitsa) — process or manner of treating
  • Ukrainian: зве́рнення (zvérnennja) — process or manner of treating
  • Arabic: عِلَاج (ʕilāj) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Arabic: مُعَالَجَة (muʕālaja) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Aragonese: tractamiento — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Armenian: բուժում (bužum) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Armenian: բժշկում (bžškum) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Asturian: tratamientu — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Azerbaijani: müalicə — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Belarusian: лячэ́нне (ljačénnje) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Bulgarian: лече́ние (lečénie) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Catalan: tractament — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Chinese Mandarin: 治療 /治疗 (zhìliáo) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Czech: léčba — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Danish: behandling — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Danish: kur — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Dutch: behandeling — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Egyptian: F5-w-Y1:Z2 (šsꜣw) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Esperanto: kuracado — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Finnish: hoito — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Finnish: kuuri — medical care for an illness or injury
  • French: traitement — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Friulian: tratament — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Friulian: cure — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Galician: tratamento — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Georgian: მკურნალობა (mḳurnaloba) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Georgian: თერაპია (teraṗia) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • German: Behandlung — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Greek: αγωγή (agogí) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Greek: θεραπεία (therapeía) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Greek: θεραπευτική αγωγή (therapeftikí agogí) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Ancient Greek: ἰατρεία (iatreía) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Haitian Creole: tretman — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Hindi: उपचार (upcār) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Hindi: इलाज (ilāj) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Hindi: चिकित्सा (cikitsā) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Hungarian: kezelés — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Hungarian: gyógykezelés — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Ido: terapio — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Indonesian: penanganan — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Italian: trattamento — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Italian: cura — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Japanese: 治療 (chiryō) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Korean: 치료 (chiryo) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Latin: curatio — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Latin: curatura — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Macedonian: третма́н (tretmán) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Macedonian: лекување (lekuvanje) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Malay: rawatan — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Malayalam: ചികിത്സ (cikitsa) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Malayalam: ശുശ്രൂഷ (śuśrūṣa) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Malayalam: പരിചരണം (paricaraṇaṁ) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Māori: maimoatanga — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Mongolian: эмчилгээ (emčilgee) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Old English: lācnung — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Persian: درمان (darmân) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Persian: علاج ('elâj) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Polish: leczenie — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Portuguese: tratamento — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Romanian: tratament — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Russian: лече́ние (lečénije) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Russian: терапи́я (terapíja) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Serbo-Croatian: лечење — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Serbo-Croatian: лијечење — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Serbo-Croatian: тера̀пија — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Serbo-Croatian: трѐтма̄н — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Serbo-Croatian: lečenje — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Serbo-Croatian: liječenje — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Serbo-Croatian: teràpija — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Serbo-Croatian: trètmān — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Slovak: liečba — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Slovene: zdravljenje — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Spanish: tratamiento — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Swahili: matibabu — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Swedish: behandling — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Swedish: kur — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Tagalog: sampawan — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Telugu: చికిత్స (cikitsa) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Tibetan: སྨན་བཅོས (sman bcos) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Turkish: tedavi — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Ukrainian: лікува́ння (likuvánnja) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Urdu: علاج ('ilāj) — medical care for an illness or injury
  • Bulgarian: обработка (obrabotka) — preserving or giving particular properties
  • Danish: behandling — preserving or giving particular properties
  • Dutch: behandeling — preserving or giving particular properties
  • Finnish: käsittely — preserving or giving particular properties
  • French: traitement — preserving or giving particular properties
  • German: Behandlung — preserving or giving particular properties
  • Greek: επεξεργασία (epexergasía) — preserving or giving particular properties
  • Greek: κατεργασία (katergasía) — preserving or giving particular properties
  • Hindi: प्रसंस्करण (prasanskaraṇ) — preserving or giving particular properties
  • Hungarian: kezelés — preserving or giving particular properties
  • Italian: trattamento — preserving or giving particular properties
  • Portuguese: tratamento — preserving or giving particular properties
  • Serbo-Croatian: tretiranje — preserving or giving particular properties
  • Slovak: spracovanie — preserving or giving particular properties
  • Spanish: tratamiento — preserving or giving particular properties
  • Tagalog: sampawan — preserving or giving particular properties
Real reading context

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