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• 1 English
  • 1.1 Alternative spellings
  • 1.2 Pronunciation
  • 1.3 Noun
    • 1.3.1 Quotations
    • 1.3.2 Related terms
    • 1.3.3 Translations
    • 1.3.4 External links

English

Alternative spellings

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˌrɛp.rə.zɛn.ˈteɪ.ʃən/, SAMPA: /%rEp.r@.zEn."teI.S@n/

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Noun

representation (plural representations)

1. That which represents another.
2. A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
3. A theatrical performance.

Quotations

• 1637: Henry Lawes, dedication to Lawes’s edition of Milton’s 1634 masque, Comus, final sentence

  Live, ſweet Lord, to be the honour of your name, and receive this as your own, from the hands of him, who hath by many favours beene long obliged to your moſt honoured parents, and as in this repræſentation your attendant Thyrſis, ſo now in all reall expreſſion   Your faithfull and moſt humble Servant,                 H. Lawes.^d

Related terms

• represent
• representable
• representamen
• representant

External links

• representation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• representation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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• Representation

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