"ventilation" meaning in English

See ventilation in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˌvɛntɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/ Audio: en-us-ventilation.ogg [US] Forms: ventilation, – [plural]
Etymology: ventilate + -ion Etymology templates: {{ety-suffix|ventilate|ion}} ventilate + -ion Head templates: {{noun4}} [POS TABLE]
  1. Ventilation is the replacement of stale air with fresh air.
    Sense id: simple-ventilation-en-noun-I0svElrF
  2. Ventilation is the bodily process of breathing; the inhalation of air to provide oxygen, and the exhalation of spent air to remove carbon dioxide.
    Sense id: simple-ventilation-en-noun-GrcDfUsx
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms suffixed with -ion
{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Terms suffixed with -ion",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ventilate",
        "2": "ion"
      },
      "expansion": "ventilate + -ion",
      "name": "ety-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "ventilate + -ion",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ventilation",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "–",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun4"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Ventilation is the replacement of stale air with fresh air."
      ],
      "id": "simple-ventilation-en-noun-I0svElrF"
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Ventilation is the bodily process of breathing; the inhalation of air to provide oxygen, and the exhalation of spent air to remove carbon dioxide."
      ],
      "id": "simple-ventilation-en-noun-GrcDfUsx"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌvɛntɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-ventilation.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "singular-only"
  ],
  "word": "ventilation"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Terms suffixed with -ion"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ventilate",
        "2": "ion"
      },
      "expansion": "ventilate + -ion",
      "name": "ety-suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "ventilate + -ion",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "ventilation",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "–",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "noun4"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Ventilation is the replacement of stale air with fresh air."
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Ventilation is the bodily process of breathing; the inhalation of air to provide oxygen, and the exhalation of spent air to remove carbon dioxide."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˌvɛntɪˈleɪʃ(ə)n/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-ventilation.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tags": [
    "singular-only"
  ],
  "word": "ventilation"
}

Download raw JSONL data for ventilation 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 2025-06-10 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (58c391d and f1c2b61). 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.