comprehension

See also: comprehensión and compréhension

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French compréhension, from Latin comprehensiō (“taking together”), from com- (“with, together”) +‎ prehendō (“take”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌkɔmpɹɪˈhenʃn̩/

Noun

comprehension (countable and uncountable, plural comprehensions)

1. Thorough understanding.

   Students will be tested on their comprehension of sentences in the foreign language.

2. (logic) The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.
3. (programming) A compact syntax for generating a list in some functional programming languages.
4. (Christianity) The inclusion of nonconformists within the Church of England.

Synonyms

• understanding

Derived terms

• listening comprehension
• reading comprehension

 

Related terms

• comprehend
• comprehensibility
• comprehensible
• comprehensive
• comprehensiveness

 

Translations

thorough understanding

• Arabic: فَهْم (ar) m (fahm)
• Belarusian: разуме́нне n (razumjénnje)
• Bulgarian: разби́ране (bg) n (razbírane), схващане (bg) n (shvaštane)
• Catalan: comprensió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 理解 (zh) (lǐjiě), 瞭解／了解 (zh) (liǎojiě), (simplified & variant traditional form) 了解 (zh) (liǎojiě)

• Czech: porozumění (cs) n, pochopení (cs) n, chápání (cs) n
• Dutch: begrijpen (nl)
• Esperanto: kompreno
• Finnish: ymmärrys (fi), käsityskyky (fi)
• French: compréhension (fr) f, entendement (fr) m
• Galician: comprensión (gl) f
• German: Verständnis (de) n, Verstehen n
• Greek:

  Ancient: κατάληψις f (katálēpsis)

• Hebrew: הֲבָנָה (he) f (havaná)
• Ido: kompreno (io)
• Italian: comprensione (it) f
• Japanese: 理解 (ja) (りかい, rikai), 了解 (ja) (りょうかい, ryōkai)
• Korean: 이해(理解) (ko) (ihae), 리해(理解) (ko) (rihae) (North Korea), 요해(了解) (ko) (yohae), 료해(了解) (ko) (ryohae) (North Korea)
• Macedonian: разбирање n (razbiranje), сфаќање (sfaḱanje)
• Maori: aroā, aroātanga
• Nepali: बोध (bodh)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forståelse (no) m, begripelse m

• Persian: فهم (fa) (fahm)
• Polish: zrozumienie (pl) n, pojmowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: compreensão (pt) f
• Romanian: comprehensiune (ro) f
• Russian: понима́ние (ru) n (ponimánije), поня́тие (ru) n (ponjátije), осмысле́ние (ru) n (osmyslénije), разуме́ние (ru) n (razuménije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: разумевање n

  Roman: razumevanje (sh) n

• Slovak: pochopenie n, porozumenie n
• Slovene: razumevanje n
• Spanish: comprensión (es) f, entendimiento (es) m
• Swedish: förståelse (sv) c
• Tagalog: katalusan, talos (tl)
• Tajik: фаҳм (tg) (fahm)
• Turkish: anlayış (tr)
• Ukrainian: розумі́ння (uk) n (rozumínnja), зрозумі́ння n (zrozumínnja)