HOW TO PRONOUNCE
substitution
/ˌsʌb.stɪˈtu.ʃən/
Press play to hear how to pronounce substitution.
American Pronunciation Guide · 1:03
Watch on YouTube ↗
Watch on YouTube ↗
What does substitution mean?
noun
- The act of substituting or the state of being substituted.
- A substitute or replacement.
- The replacement of an atom, or group of atoms, in a compound, with another.
More meanings (1)
noun
- The expansion of the lexicon of a language by native means in correspondence to a foreign term.
Definitions regrouped for readability · CC BY-SA 4.0
IPA pronunciation
/ˌsʌb.stɪˈtu.ʃən/
Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
In the pages of books
See this word in context.
The substitution of a lamb in the place of Isaac would seem to indicate a change from child-slaughter to that of animals.
It is legitimate enough to suppose, along this hypothesis, that this substitution plot was the very matter on which the two men quarrelled.
More book examples (3)
Thus comes in that customary begging of the question--the substitution, as the real significance of Scripture, of "WHAT WE BELIEVE" for what IS.
A substitution of separate State sovereignties, in the place of the constituent sovereignty of the people, was the basis of the Confederate Union.
Occasionally there was a substitution of a great swelling of the tongue, rendering mastication and articulation very difficult for four or five days.