"transfiguration" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-transfiguration.wav Forms: transfigurations [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English transfiguracioun, from Old French transfiguracion, Anglo-Norman transfiguraciun, and Latin transfigūrātio. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|transfiguracioun}} Middle English transfiguracioun, {{der|en|fro|transfiguracion}} Old French transfiguracion, {{der|en|xno|transfiguraciun}} Anglo-Norman transfiguraciun, {{der|en|la|transfigūrātio}} Latin transfigūrātio Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} transfiguration (countable and uncountable, plural transfigurations)
  1. A major change in appearance or form; a metamorphosis. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (a major change in appearance or form; a metamorphosis): преобразование (preobrazovanie) (Bulgarian), метаморфоза (metamorfoza) (Bulgarian), Umgestaltung [feminine] (German), átváltozás (Hungarian), átalakulás (Hungarian), átalakítás (Hungarian), przeobrażenie [neuter] (Polish), przekształcenie [neuter] (Polish), przemienienie [neuter] (Polish), transfiguracja [feminine] (Polish), transfiguração [feminine] (Portuguese), видоизменение (vidoizmenenije) [neuter] (Russian), преображе́ние (preobražénije) [neuter] (Russian), преобразова́ние (preobrazovánije) [neuter] (Russian), förvandling [common-gender] (Swedish), malikmata (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-transfiguration-en-noun-bvpMTuL8 Disambiguation of 'a major change in appearance or form; a metamorphosis': 96 2 2
  2. A change that exalts or glorifies. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (a change that exalts or glorifies): преображе́ние (preobražénie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), színeváltozás (Hungarian), преображе́ние (preobražénije) [neuter] (Russian), malikmata (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-transfiguration-en-noun-g1964HsL Disambiguation of 'a change that exalts or glorifies': 3 91 6
  3. superposition of one or more ideal-elements in comparison with other real ones, often through imagination but sometimes at the risk of confusing when not clearly realized. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-transfiguration-en-noun-g1eu6Ndb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Tagalog translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 5 27 68 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 4 30 65 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 3 41 56 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 29 69 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 12 25 63 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 7 30 64 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 12 25 63 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 10 29 61 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 7 29 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 5 31 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 6 29 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Tagalog translations: 7 29 64

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (df33d17 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.