"allegation" meaning in English

See allegation in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˌæl.ɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/ [Canada, UK, US], /ˌæl.əˈɡeɪ.ʃən/ [Canada, UK, US], /ˌæl.ɪˈɡæɪ.ʃən/ [General-Australian] Audio: en-us-allegation.ogg Forms: allegations [plural]
enPR: ăl'ĭ-gā'shən [Canada, UK, US] Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French allégation, from Latin allegatio, from allegare. See allege. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|frm|allégation}} Middle French allégation, {{der|en|la|allegatio}} Latin allegatio Head templates: {{en-noun}} allegation (plural allegations)
  1. An assertion, especially an accusation, not necessarily based on facts. Translations (an assertion or accusation): اِدِّعَاء (Idiiʻāʼ) [masculine] (Arabic), պնդում (pndum) (alt: անհիմն) (Armenian), մեղադրանք (meġadrankʻ) (Armenian), абвінавачванне (abvinavačvannje) (alt: безгрунтоўнае) [neuter] (Belarusian), сцверджанне (scvjerdžannje) (alt: галаслоўнае) [neuter] (Belarusian), твърде́ние (tvǎrdénie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), 斷言 (Chinese Mandarin), 断言 (duànyán) (Chinese Mandarin), 主張 (Chinese Mandarin), 主张 (zhǔzhāng) (Chinese Mandarin), tvrzení [neuter] (Czech), påstand (Danish), bewering (Dutch), aantijging [feminine] (Dutch), aserto (Esperanto), väitmine (Estonian), väite (Finnish), syytös (Finnish), assertion (French), allégation (French), Behauptung [feminine] (German), आरोप (ārop) (Hindi), अभियोग (abhiyog) (Hindi), állítás (Hungarian), tuduhan (Indonesian), 主張 (shuchō) (alt: しゅちょう) (Japanese), 申し立て (mōshitate) (alt: もうしたて) (Japanese), dakwaan (Malay), ആരോപണം (ārōpaṇaṁ) (Malayalam), kupu whakapae (Maori), allegacion [feminine] (Occitan), domniemanie [neuter] (Polish), zarzut [masculine] (Polish), alegação [feminine] (Portuguese), acuzație [feminine] (Romanian), обвине́ние (obvinénije) (alt: беспочвенное) [neuter] (Russian), утвержде́ние (utverždénije) (alt: голосло́вное) [neuter] (Russian), alegato [masculine] (Spanish), acusación [feminine] (Spanish), alegación [feminine] (Spanish), anklagelse (Swedish), iddia (Turkish), cáo buộc (Vietnamese)
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  2. The act of alleging.
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: accusation, assertion, censure, charge, crimination, impeachment Derived forms: misallegation, reallegation Related terms: allegator, allege

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "word": "斷言"
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      "roman": "duànyán",
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      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
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      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
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      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
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      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "word": "väite"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "word": "syytös"
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "word": "allégation"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Behauptung"
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      "code": "hi",
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      "roman": "ārop",
      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "word": "आरोप"
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      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "abhiyog",
      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "word": "अभियोग"
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      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "word": "állítás"
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      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "word": "tuduhan"
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      "alt": "しゅちょう",
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      "roman": "shuchō",
      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "word": "主張"
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      "alt": "もうしたて",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
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      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "word": "申し立て"
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    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "word": "dakwaan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "ārōpaṇaṁ",
      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "word": "ആരോപണം"
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    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "word": "kupu whakapae"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "allegacion"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "domniemanie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zarzut"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "alegação"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "acuzație"
    },
    {
      "alt": "беспочвенное",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "obvinénije",
      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "обвине́ние"
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      "alt": "голосло́вное",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "utverždénije",
      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "утвержде́ние"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "alegato"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "acusación"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "alegación"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "word": "anklagelse"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "word": "iddia"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "an assertion or accusation",
      "word": "cáo buộc"
    }
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    "allegation"
  ],
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}

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