rendition

ren·di·tion

noun \ren-ˈdi-shən\

Definition of RENDITION

: the act or result of rendering: as a : surrender b : translation c : performance, interpretation

Examples of RENDITION

1. a moving rendition of an old gospel song
2. a new rendition of the text in English

Origin of RENDITION

obsolete French, from Middle French, alteration of reddition, from Late Latin reddition-, redditio, from Latin reddere to return

First Known Use: 1601

Related to RENDITION

Synonyms: interpretation, performance, reading, account, version

Related Words: adaptation, reworking, variation

Near Antonyms: resistance

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Rhymes with RENDITION

addition, admission, ambition, attrition, audition, beautician, clinician, cognition, coition, commission, condition, contrition, demission, dentition, dismission, Domitian, edition, emission, ethician, fruition, ignition, Kittitian, lenition, logician, magician, Mauritian, monition, mortician, munition, musician, nutrition, omission, optician, partition, patrician, perdition, permission, petition, Phoenician, physician, Politian, position, punition, remission, sedition, submission, suspicion, tactician, technician, tradition, transition, transmission, tuition, volition