"consideration" meaning in English

See consideration in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /kənˌsɪdəˈreɪʃən/ Audio: en-us-consideration.ogg [US] Forms: consideration [singular], considerations [plural]
Head templates: {{noun}} [POS TABLE]
  1. Consideration is the process of thinking carefully about something.
    Sense id: simple-consideration-en-noun-7E6reRi3
  2. Consideration can also be a thoughtful and caring attitude towards others.
    Sense id: simple-consideration-en-noun-eUif9AdC
     
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "consideration",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "considerations",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "con‧sid‧er‧ation",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "After much consideration, I think I will retire."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Consideration is the process of thinking carefully about something."
      ],
      "id": "simple-consideration-en-noun-7E6reRi3"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Show some consideration and stop waking up your little brother with all that noise."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Consideration can also be a thoughtful and caring attitude towards others."
      ],
      "id": "simple-consideration-en-noun-eUif9AdC"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kənˌsɪdəˈreɪʃən/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-consideration.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "consideration"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "consideration",
      "tags": [
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "considerations",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": "con‧sid‧er‧ation",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "After much consideration, I think I will retire."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Consideration is the process of thinking carefully about something."
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Show some consideration and stop waking up your little brother with all that noise."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Consideration can also be a thoughtful and caring attitude towards others."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kənˌsɪdəˈreɪʃən/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-consideration.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "consideration"
}

Download raw JSONL data for consideration meaning in English (0.8kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-08 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (51d164f and fb63907). 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.