recreation
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Etymology 1
From Middle English recreacion, from Middle French recreacion, from Old French recreacion, from Latin recreātiō.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: rĕ-krē-āʹshən, IPA(key): /ɹɛkɹiˈeɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) enPR: rĕ-krē-āʹshən, IPA(key): /ɹɛkɹiˈeɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
recreation (countable and uncountable, plural recreations)
- Any activity, such as play, that amuses, diverts or stimulates.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 4:
- The ordinary recreations which we have in winter, and in most solitary times busy our minds with, are cards, tables and dice, shovelboard, chess-play, the philosopher's game, small trunks, shuttlecock […]
- 1972, Peter Chan, Water quality and recreational value analysis on Lake Dubay:
- Mercury contents did not affect recreation persay but definitely could if found in fish tissue at high levels.
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Translations
activity that diverts, amuses or stimulates
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Etymology 2
From Middle English recreacion; equivalent to re- + creation.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: rē-krē-āʹshən, IPA(key): /ɹiːkɹiˈeɪʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) enPR: rē-krē-āʹshən, IPA(key): /ɹiːkɹiˈeɪʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
recreation (plural recreations)
- The process of creating something again.
- The result of this process.
- 2007, Baxter's Practical Works, Volume 1: A Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases ...[1]:
- Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]
Usage notes
The hyphenated form re-creation avoids confusion with the more common other sense.
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Translations
The process of recreating something
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