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Meaning of criterion | Babel Free

Noun masculine CEFR C2 Specialized
kɹɪˈtɪəɹi.ən

Definitions

  1. A standard, test, or requirement by which individual things or people may be compared and judged; a gauge.
  2. Criterion, standard.

Equivalents

العربية المعيار معيار
Azərbaycanca meyar mizan
Български критерий мерило
Bosanski мерило
Català criteri
Čeština kritérium
Cymraeg maen prawf
Dansk kriterium
Deutsch Kriterium
Ελληνικά κριτήριο
Esperanto kriterio
فارسی معیار
Suomi kriteeri
Français Critère
Gàidhlig slat-tomhais
עברית קריטריון
हिन्दी मापदंड
Hrvatski мерило
Հայերեն չափանիշ
Bahasa Indonesia kriteria kriterium
Italiano criterio
日本語 判断基準 基準
ქართული კრიტერიუმი
한국어 표준
Kurdî krîter mîzan
Lietuvių kriterijus
Latviešu kritērijs
Македонски критериум
മലയാളം മാനദണ്ഡം
Монгол шалгуур
Nederlands criterium
Polski kryterium
Português critério
Română criteriu
Српски мерило
Svenska kriterium
Kiswahili kigezo
Tagalog panuntunan
Українська критерій міри́ло
اردو معیار
Tiếng Việt tiêu chuẩn

Examples

“Near-synonym: benchmark”
“criterion of choice, of decision, of selection”
“Knowledge has come to her too soon—knowledge of evil, unqualified by the general charities which longer experience infallibly brings; but her age has lent its own freshness to this first great emotion; it becomes unconsciously a criterion, and the judgment is harsh, because the remembrance is bitter.”
“The Enlightment worldview, which considered the order of "Nature" as a basis and, at the same time, the subject of explorations of scientific natural sciences, has, at the same time, considered this order as a criterion of the artistically-aesthetic qualities of art. From an "ideological" point of view, it liberated art from its feudal religious and courtly servitude.”
“Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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