fruition en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
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- /fɹuˈɪʃən/ (US)
- /fɹuˈɪʃən/ (UK)
Etymology
From Latin fruitiō (“enjoyment”). By surface analysis, fruit + -ion.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The fulfillment of something worked for.
The myths possess us: through our agony / They work to new fruition.
1914, John Jay Chapman, “The Wrath of Achilles. 1. The Embassy to Achilles.”, in Homeric Scenes: Hector’s Farewell and The Wrath of Achilles, New York, N.Y.: Laurence J. Gomme, →OCLC, scene II, page 23:That progress has taken over ten years and £20 million to bring to fruition. But, as Mands explains, the journey has been one that HSG has been almost obligated to undertake. "First and foremost, this is an environmental project," she says.
2023 December 27, Richard Foster, “New rail freight terminal leads the way”, in RAIL, number 999, page 39:Perhaps,—for the Divine purpose runs through every aim of our being,—the disappointment and the endurance are but sent to raise those hopes above, which else might cling too fondly to their fruition below.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 310–311:Largely by reason of the persistence of John Crevallier Cobbold, a leading townsman and a member of a respected Suffolk family, the scheme was brought to fruition and by an Act dated July 19, 1844, the Eastern Union Railway came into existence.
1946 September and October, “Centenary of the Ipswich-Colchester Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 307:[…] to weare our ſelues & neuer reſt, Untill we reach the ripeſt fruites of all, That perfect bliſſe and ſole felicitie, The ſweet fruition of an earthly crowne.
c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:After six years of hard work, the engineers had brought the project to fruition.
- (countable, uncountable) The enjoyment derived from a possession.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| fruitions | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
come to fruition · nonfruition
Translations (19)
de Verwirklichung (fulfillment of something worked for) · cmn 享用 (enjoyment derived from a possession) · nl vervulling (fulfillment of something worked for) · tr gerçekleşme (fulfillment of something worked for) · cmn 实现 (fulfillment of something worked for) · bg осъществяване (fulfillment of something worked for) · ru осуществление (fulfillment of something worked for) · fr jouissance (enjoyment derived from a possession) · nl vruchtgebruik (enjoyment derived from a possession) · it godimento (enjoyment derived from a possession) · tr gerçekleştirme (fulfillment of something worked for) · sv förverkligande (fulfillment of something worked for) · mk оствару́вање (fulfillment of something worked for) · pt realização (fulfillment of something worked for) · es fructificación (fulfillment of something worked for) · ru реализация (fulfillment of something worked for) · fi toteutuminen (fulfillment of something worked for) · cmn 完成 (fulfillment of something worked for) · it realizzazione (fulfillment of something worked for)