continuance

Meaning of continuance

noun
  1. the state of remaining in existence or operation.
    his interests encouraged him to favour the continuance of war
  2. a postponement or an adjournment.
    scheduling trial dates and refusing to grant continuances are part of a judge's prerogative

late Middle English: from Old French, from continuer ‘continue’, from Latin continuare, from continuus (see continuous).

Information about continuance

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of continuance is: continuances.
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Hyphenation of continuance

con-tin-u-ance

  • It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
  • continuance is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables

continuance synonyms

Meaning continuation:

continuation

Meaning duration:

duration

Meaning extension of the duration of something:

prolongation

Meaning the action of prolonging something or the state of being prolonged:

protraction

Meaning the process of preserving a condition or situation or the state of being preserved:

maintenance

Meaning the action of preserving something:

preservation

Meaning the continuation or preservation of a situation, idea, etc:

perpetuation

Translation of continuance

Words that rhyme with continuance

ance, saance, absorbance, bobance, disturbance, indisturbance, nondisturbance, perturbance, predisturbance, reprobance, undisturbance, impeccance, insignificance, nonsignificance, omnisignificance, presignificance, scance, signficance, significance, vacance, Sundance, abidance, abondance, abundance, accordance, adance, aidance, appendance, ascendance, attendance, avoidance, biddance, breakdance, clogdance, concordance, condordance, contradance, contredance, counterdance, dance, dependance, descendance, disaccordance, discordance, disregardance, exceedance, exundance, forbiddance, foreguidance, guidance

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