Definition of meditation
1 : a discourse intended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation
2 : the act or process of meditating the meditation out of which this novel has come — Granville Hicks
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Examples of meditation in a Sentence
She spent the morning in meditation.
Daily meditation helps clear his mind.
Recent Examples of meditation from the Web
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Consider an app or website to support guided meditation or breathing exercises.
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Ballet was my meditation, my therapy, my escape, my answer.
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Overeaters Anonymous meditation and writing meeting 7 a.m., St. Benedict Monastery, 9535 Linton Hall Rd., Bristow.
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Sher takes a show often accused of fetishizing the East and turns it into an emotionally intense meditation on modernity and 19th-century women who found a way to make change.
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Meditation and yoga had become a part of his day-to-day life.
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Spencer says the infusions are like meditation, only better.
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Not every take on WWII needs to be Saving Private Ryan, or present a deep and meaningful meditation on the atrocities of war.
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Enter the Yoga Wake Up app, which features a number of 5 to 15 minute audio recordings of yoga sequences and meditations — many that include light stretching and intention setting, and all of which can be done right in your bed.
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First Known Use of meditation
13th century
MEDITATION Defined for English Language Learners
meditation
playDefinition of meditation for English Language Learners
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: the act or process of spending time in quiet thought : the act or process of meditating
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: an expression of a person's thoughts on something
MEDITATION Defined for Kids
meditation
playDefinition of meditation for Students
: the act or an instance of planning or thinking quietly
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