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# dictation

«dictation» in Mova's school dictionary: **saying words aloud so that someone else can write them…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (dictation, dictations)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Dictation is saying words aloud so that someone else can write them down exactly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dictation/#m1)

2) A dictation can be the passage that is read aloud for pupils to write. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dictation/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in lessons a teacher reads a passage aloud and pupils write it down; in old tales a prince writes a letter at a vizier's dictation, meaning as the vizier tells him to

### examples

- We had a spelling dictation today. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dictation/#x1)
- The prince wrote the letter at the vizier's dictation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dictation/#x2)
- Write down every word of the teacher's dictation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dictation/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dictation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dictation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.