Usually means: Omission of sounds in speech.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word elision:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. elision: Merriam-Webster
  2. elision: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elision: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. elision: Collins English Dictionary
  5. elision: Vocabulary.com
  6. elision: Wordnik
  7. elision: Wiktionary
  8. elision: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. elision: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. elision: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. elision: Dictionary.com
  12. Elision (French), Elision (disambiguation), Elision (music), Elision: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. elision: Rhymezone
  14. elision: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. elision: FreeDictionary.org
  16. elision: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. elision: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. elision: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Elision: Lexicon of Linguistics
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  4. ELISION: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elision: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. elision: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The deliberate omission of something.
noun:  (linguistics) The omission of a letter or syllable between two words or inside a word; sometimes marked with an apostrophe.

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