Participation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Participation \Par*tic`i*pa"tion\, n. [F. participation, L.
     participatio.]
     1. The act or state of participating, or sharing in common
        with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows.
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              These deities are so by participation. --Bp.
                                                    Stillingfleet.
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              What an honor, that God should admit us into such a
              blessed participation of himself!     --Atterbury.
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     2. Distribution; division into shares. [Obs.] --Raleigh.
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     3. Community; fellowship; association. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  participation
       n 1: the act of sharing in the activities of a group; "the
            teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in
            class activities" [syn: {engagement}, {involvement}, {involution}]
            [ant: {non-engagement}, {non-engagement}, {non-engagement}]
       2: the condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows
          or partners etc.) [syn: {involvement}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "participation":
     admissibility, admission, affiliation, assimilation, association,
     companionship, company, completeness, comprehension,
     comprehensiveness, comprisal, consociation, cooperation, coverage,
     eligibility, embodiment, embracement, encompassment, envisagement,
     exhaustiveness, fellowship, fraternity, fraternization, inclusion,
     inclusiveness, incorporation, membership, openness, partaking,
     reception, sharing, society, tolerance, toleration, whole