REPARATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reparation mean? 

• REPARATION (noun)
  The noun REPARATION has 4 senses:

1. compensation (given or received) for an insult or injury

2. (usually plural) compensation exacted from a defeated nation by the victors

3. the act of putting something in working order again

4. something done or paid in expiation of a wrong

  Familiarity information: REPARATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPARATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Compensation (given or received) for an insult or injury

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Context example:

an act for which there is no reparation

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

compensation (something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury))

Derivation:

repair (make amends for; pay compensation for)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(usually plural) compensation exacted from a defeated nation by the victors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Context example:

Germany was unable to pay the reparations demanded after World War I

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

compensation (something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury))

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of putting something in working order again

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

fix; fixing; fixture; mend; mending; repair; reparation

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

improvement (the act of improving something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reparation"):

darning (the act of mending a hole in a garment with crossing threads)

patching (the act of mending a hole in a garment by sewing a patch over it)

care; maintenance; upkeep (activity involved in maintaining something in good working order)

band aid; quick fix; quickie; quicky (hurried repair)

restoration (the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state)

reconstruction (the activity of constructing something again)

restitution (the act of restoring something to its original state)

Derivation:

repair (restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Something done or paid in expiation of a wrong

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

amends; reparation

Context example:

how can I make amends

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

atonement; expiation; propitiation (the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity))

Derivation:

repair (set straight or right)

repair (make amends for; pay compensation for)

 Context examples 

“Then reparation is still within your power,” said Sherlock Holmes.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The ebb-tide, which had so cruelly delayed us, was now making reparation and delaying our assailants.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

These were great concessions;—but where Marianne felt that she had injured, no reparation could be too much for her to make.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

But meanwhile, you have time to make some small reparation for the injury you have wrought.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The duty done, and act of reparation performed, which can alone enable me to contemplate my fellow mortal, I shall be known no more.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

What reparation can I make?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Produce your reparation.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Can you not make reparation?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)