"preservation" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /pɹɛ.zɝˈveɪ.ʃən/ [US] Audio: en-us-preservation.ogg [US] Forms: preservations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From Old French preservacion, from Medieval Latin preservatio. Morphologically preserve + -ation. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fro|preservacion}} Old French preservacion, {{der|en|ML.|preservatio}} Medieval Latin preservatio, {{suffix|en|preserve|ation|nocat=1}} preserve + -ation Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} preservation (countable and uncountable, plural preservations)
  1. The act of preserving; care to preserve; act of keeping from destruction, decay or any ill. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (the act of preserving): τήρησις (tḗrēsis) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), مُحَافَظَة (muḥāfaẓa) [feminine] (Arabic), կոնսերվացում (konservacʻum) (Armenian), mühafizə (Azerbaijani), опазване (opazvane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), съхранение (sǎhranenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), preservació [feminine] (Catalan), 保存 (bǎocún) (Chinese Mandarin), säilyttäminen (Finnish), préservation [feminine] (French), Erhaltung [feminine] (German), conservazione [feminine] (Italian), preservazione [feminine] (Italian), salvaguardia [feminine] (Italian), 保存 (hozon) (alt: ほぞん) (Japanese), ಸಂರಕ್ಷಣೆ (saṃrakṣaṇe) (Kannada), 보존 (bojon) (Korean), зачуву́вање (začuvúvanje) [neuter] (Macedonian), запазу́вање (zapazúvanje) [neuter] (Macedonian), одржу́вање (održúvanje) [neuter] (Macedonian), bevaring [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), bevaring [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), محافظت (mohâfazat) (Persian), preservação [feminine] (Portuguese), сохране́ние (soxranénije) (Russian), preservación [feminine] (Spanish), bevarande [neuter] (Swedish), saimbak (Tagalog), муҳофиза (muhofiza) (Tajik), పరిరక్షణ (parirakṣaṇa) (Telugu)
    Sense id: en-preservation-en-noun-U6YJbS9x Disambiguation of 'the act of preserving': 96 4
  2. The state of being preserved, how something has survived. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-preservation-en-noun-dVQdP3qS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 80
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: preservationist, self-preservation

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      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "зачуву́вање"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "zapazúvanje",
      "sense": "the act of preserving",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "запазу́вање"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "održúvanje",
      "sense": "the act of preserving",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "одржу́вање"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "the act of preserving",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bevaring"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "the act of preserving",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bevaring"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "mohâfazat",
      "sense": "the act of preserving",
      "word": "محافظت"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "the act of preserving",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "preservação"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "soxranénije",
      "sense": "the act of preserving",
      "word": "сохране́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the act of preserving",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "preservación"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the act of preserving",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "bevarande"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "the act of preserving",
      "word": "saimbak"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "muhofiza",
      "sense": "the act of preserving",
      "word": "муҳофиза"
    },
    {
      "code": "te",
      "lang": "Telugu",
      "roman": "parirakṣaṇa",
      "sense": "the act of preserving",
      "word": "పరిరక్షణ"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "en:preservation"
  ],
  "word": "preservation"
}

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