Dictation Definition

dĭk-tāshən
noun
The dictating of words for another to write down.
Webster's New World
The words so spoken or read.
Webster's New World
The material so dictated.
American Heritage
The giving of authoritative orders or commands.
Webster's New World

(countable) An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down.

1908: Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables - We had reading and geography and Canadian history and dictation today.
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dictation
Plural:
dictations

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