dictation.
Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words.
Meaning & usage
Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words.
Since I learned shorthand, I can take dictation at eighty words a minute.
An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down.
The act of ordering or commanding.
Orders given in an overbearing manner.
His habit, even with friends, was that of dictation.
Where this word comes from
From Late Latin dictātiō, noun of action from dictātus, the perfect passive participle of dictō. By surface analysis, dictate + -ion.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.