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meditate
What does meditate mean?
meditate (verb): to contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon something; to study.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use meditate in a sentence?
- They meditate together. (Tatoeba sentence #10272369 by SabukHitam, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce meditate?
/ˈmɛdəˌteɪt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does meditate come from?
First attested in 1560; borrowed from Latin meditātus, perfect active participle of meditor (“to think or reflect upon, consider, design, purpose, intend”), morphologically as if frequentative of medeor (“to heal, to cure, to remedy”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to meditate
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
Test yourself: do you know “meditate”?
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What does “meditate” mean?
to contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon something; to study
Right! That's what “meditate” means.
to move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to carry on
Not quite: that's what proceed means.
to commit (oneself) to a particular course of thought or action
Not quite: that's what dedicate means.
to kick a ball dropped from the hands before it hits the ground
Not quite: that's what punt means.
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