initiation

UK/ɪˌnɪʃ.iˈeɪ.ʃən/US/ɪˌnɪʃ.iˈeɪ.ʃən/

nounB2+Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,341 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: initiations

Initiation is the formal admitting of somebody into a group. An initiation ceremony, initiation rites, a brutal initiation.

Anthropologists treat initiation rites as one of the near-universal features of human societies, since almost every culture marks the passage into adulthood. In clubs and teams it has often meant humiliation, which is now widely banned.

Definitions of initiation

1nouninitiationThe formal admitting of somebody into a group.B2+
“New members of the club must go through a secret initiation ceremony.”

initiation is a ceremony.

Where it comes from

Latin initiatio comes from initiare, to begin or admit to mysteries, from initium, a beginning.

Proto-Indo-European
*h₁ey-
Latin
initiātiō
Middle French
initiation
English, today
initiation

Borrowed from Middle French initiation, from Latin initiātiō. Morphologically initiate + ion.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

initiation in the wild

A person taking the initiation ceremony in traditional rites is called an initiate.
Initiation
In Hinduism, initiation takes the form of one of several rituals, depending on the individual and the tradition involved.
Diksha
The sacraments of initiation (also called the "mysteries of initiation") are the three sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist (more specifically, the First Communion) in Nicene Christianity.
Sacraments of initiation
Translation initiation is sometimes described as three step process which initiation factors help to carry out.
Initiation factor
Once the initiation phase has completed, eIF2 is released from the ribosome bound to GDP as an inactive binary complex.
EIF2

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