defamation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˌdɛfəˈmeɪʃən/, SAMPA: /%dEf@"meIS@n/

  Rhymes: -eɪʃən

• Hyphenation: def‧am‧ation

Noun

defamation (plural defamations)

1. Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion.

Synonyms

• slander
• detraction
• calumny
• aspersion
• See also Wikisaurus:slander

Related terms

• defame
• defamatory

Translations

act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication

Bulgarian: клевета (bg) f., хула (bg) f. Catalan: difamació (ca) f. Chinese: Mandarin: 誹謗 (zh), 诽谤 (zh) (fěibàng) Czech: pomluva (cs) f. Dutch: belastering Finnish: kunnianloukkaus (legal term), herjaus, solvaus (common terms) French: diffamation (fr) f. German: Verleumdung (de) f. Greek: δυσφήμιση (el) (dysfímisi) f., συκοφαντία (el) (sykofantía) f., (defamation of character) συκοφαντική δυσφήμιση (el) (sykofantikí dysfímisi) f. Hebrew: השמצה (hashmatza) f. Hungarian: rágalmazás (hu)

Italian: diffamazione (it) f. Japanese: Kanji: 名誉毀損 Hiragana: めいよきそん Romaji: meiyokison Korean: Hangul: 중상 Romaja: jungsang Latin: diffamatio, obtrectatio Norwegian: ærekrenkelse (no) c., ærekrenking (no) f. Portuguese: difamação (pt) f. Russian: диффамация (ru) (diffamácija) f., шельмование (ru) (šel'movánije) n., клевета (ru) (klevetá) f. Spanish: difamación (es) f.