Recognition

Quick meaning: Recognition is a noun meaning Acceptance as valid or true.

Meaning

Acceptance as valid or true.

More Meanings

1. Official acceptance of the status of a new government by that of another country.
2. Honour, favourable note, or attention.
3. (immunology) The propriety consisting for antibodies to bind to some specific antigens and not to others.
4. (Scots law, historical) A return of the feu to the superior.
5. The act of recognizing or the condition of being recognized (matching a current observation with a memory of a prior observation of the same entity).

Example Sentences

The law was a recognition of their civil rights.

He looked at her for ten full minutes before recognition dawned.

The charity gained plenty of recognition for its efforts, but little money.

The freight market has changed beyond all recognition from when RAIL was first published. Coal, the then-dominant traffic, has all but disappeared. Instead, maritime intermodal flows have shown steady growth.

Word Forms

• recognitions

Synonyms for recognition

Depending on context, synonyms include realization, acknowledgment, preferment, realisation, identification, acknowledgement.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include realization, realisation, identification, acknowledgment, credit, preferment.

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