LUCUBRATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lucubration mean? 

• LUCUBRATION (noun)
  The noun LUCUBRATION has 2 senses:

1. a solemn literary work that is the product of laborious cogitation

2. laborious cogitation

  Familiarity information: LUCUBRATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUCUBRATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A solemn literary work that is the product of laborious cogitation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("lucubration" is a kind of...):

literary composition; literary work (imaginative or creative writing)

Derivation:

lucubrate (add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Laborious cogitation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("lucubration" is a kind of...):

cogitation; study (attentive consideration and meditation)