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MEDITATION
Definition of MEDITATION
noun
A devotional exercise of, or leading to, contemplation.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Old French meditacion, from Latin meditatio, from meditatus, the past participle of meditārī (“to meditate, to think over, consider”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, limit, consider, advise”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (12,180)
How it is built
Same root, MEDITATION · 1 relative in the game
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MEDITATION in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 22 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 152, 19 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MEDITATION starts with M and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ADEIIMNOTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I and T appear more than once.
Words that start MEDITA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MEDITATION?
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