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translation

noun

tran(t)s-ˈlā-shən

Definition of translation

as in translating

an instance of expressing something in different words had to read Dante's Divine Comedy in translation since I don't know Italian

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Recent Examples of translation In 1958, the English translation of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago was the best-selling novel of the year, according to Publishers Weekly. — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026 Enterprise applications, such as training, medical imaging, and live translation, offer significant benefits across various industries. — Cortney Harding, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 The film shares its title with a poetry collection by Rabindranath Tagore, whose Burmese translation the filmmaker read. — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 8 July 2026 Also in January, the French division of Harlequin, which is part of publisher HarperCollins, announced a trial with an AI translation company. — Zoey Forbes, The Dial, 7 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for translation

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translating

Noun

Writing and translating had become my only job.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 May 2026
For both captioning and translating, the Captify app records transcriptions of whatever runs through the glasses.

— Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 29 Apr. 2026