CONFIRMATION
Dictionary entry overview: What does confirmation mean?
• CONFIRMATION (noun)
The noun CONFIRMATION has 5 senses:
1. additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct
2. information that confirms or verifies
3. making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it
4. a ceremony held in the synagogue (usually at Pentecost) to admit as adult members of the Jewish community young men and women who have successfully completed a course of study in Judaism
5. a sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church
Familiarity information: CONFIRMATION used as a noun is common.
Dictionary entry details
• CONFIRMATION (noun)
Meaning:
Additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
confirmation; substantiation; verification; check
Context example:
fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory
Hypernyms ("confirmation" is a kind of...):
cogent evidence; proof (any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "confirmation"):
bed check (a check that everyone is in bed by the time they should be)
crosscheck (an instance of confirming something by considering information from several sources)
odd-even check; parity check; redundant check (a system of checking for errors in computer functioning)
checksum (a digit representing the sum of the digits in an instance of digital data; used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission or storage)
Meaning:
Information that confirms or verifies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("confirmation" is a kind of...):
info; information (a message received and understood)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "confirmation"):
reenforcement; reinforcement (information that makes more forcible or convincing)
certification; corroboration; documentation (confirmation that some fact or statement is true)
Meaning:
Making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
ratification; confirmation
Context examples:
the ratification of the treaty / confirmation of the appointment
Hypernyms ("confirmation" is a kind of...):
agreement (the verbal act of agreeing)
Meaning:
A ceremony held in the synagogue (usually at Pentecost) to admit as adult members of the Jewish community young men and women who have successfully completed a course of study in Judaism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("confirmation" is a kind of...):
religious ceremony; religious ritual (a ceremony having religious meaning)
Meaning:
A sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("confirmation" is a kind of...):
sacrament (a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction)
