- the process or an instance of redoubling
- the state, condition, or quality of being redoubled
- a thing that has been redoubled
- repetition of a sound or syllable in a word, as in the formation of the Latin perfect tetigi from tangere "touch"
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
re•du•pli•ca•tion
(ri do̅o̅′pli kā′shən, -dyo̅o̅′-),USA pronunciation n.
- the act of reduplicating;
the state of being reduplicated. - something resulting from reduplicating.
- Grammar
- reduplicating as a grammatical pattern.
- the added element in a reduplicated form.
- Grammara form containing a reduplicated element.
- Late Latin reduplicātiōn- (stem of reduplicātiō). See reduplicate, -ion
- 1580–90
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
reduplication /rɪˌdjuːplɪˈkeɪʃən/ n
'reduplication' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
baby
- beriberi
- bibelot
- dilly-dally
- fiddle-faddle
- flip-flop
- kike
- knick-knack
- mamma
- mishmash
- rickrack
- roly-poly
- seesaw
- shillyshally
- shush
- teetotal
- dittography
- redupl.
- reduplicative
- self-reduplication