Although communication and excommunication sound similar, they have absolutely nothing to do with one other.
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Excommunication
//ɛkskəmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃən//
Synonyms for "excommunication" (49 found)
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Closest matches (10)
Strong matches (15)
Related words (24)
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3 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesderived
1 entriesderived from
1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
6 entriesTranslations
59 translations across 42 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀφορισμός noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Arabic
1 entries- حِرْمَان كَنَسِيّ noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Armenian
2 entries- բանադրանք noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
- նզովք noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Belarusian
1 entries- адлучэ́нне noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Bulgarian
1 entries- отлъ́чване noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 絕罰 /绝罚 noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
- 逐出教會 /逐出教会 noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Czech
2 entries- exkomunikace noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
- vyobcování noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Danish
1 entries- bandlysning noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Dutch
1 entries- excommunicatie noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Estonian
1 entries- ekskommunikatsioon noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Finnish
1 entries- ekskommunikaatio noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
French
1 entries- excommunication noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Galician
1 entries- excomuñón noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
German
1 entries- Exkommunikation noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Greek
2 entries- απαγόρευση noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
- αφορισμός noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Hebrew
2 entries- חרם \ חֵרֶם noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
- נידוי \ נִדּוּי noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Hungarian
1 entries- kiközösítés noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Icelandic
1 entries- bannfæring noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Indonesian
1 entries- ekskomunikasi noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Irish
1 entries- coinnealbhá noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Italian
1 entries- scomunica noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Japanese
2 entries- 破門 noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
- 除名 noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Korean
1 entries- 파문 noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Latin
2 entries- excommūnicātiō noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
- excommūniō noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Macedonian
2 entries- екскомуникација noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
- изопштување noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- bannlysing noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
- bannlysning noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
- ekskommunikasjon noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- bannlysing noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
- ekskommunikasjon noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Old English
1 entries- āmǣnsumung noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Baun noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Polish
1 entries- ekskomunika noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Portuguese
1 entries- excomunhão noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Romanian
2 entries- afurisenie noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
- excomunicare noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Russian
1 entries- отлуче́ние noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- ekskomunikácija noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
- izopštenje noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
- екскомуника́ција noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
- изопштење noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Slovak
1 entries- exkomunikácia noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Slovene
1 entries- ekskomunikacija noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Spanish
2 entries- descomunión noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
- excomunión noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Swedish
2 entries- bannlysning noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
- exkommunikation noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Tagalog
1 entries- ekskomunyon noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Turkish
1 entries- aforoz noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Uyghur
1 entries- відлу́чення noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Yiddish
1 entries- חרם noun (act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
Tom had to recant or face excommunication.
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