corroboration

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noun

The act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation.

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Meanings

nouncorroboration (countable and uncountable, plural corroborations)

plural corroborations

  1. countableuncountableThe act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming; addition of strength; confirmation.

    Social media lighted up with corroborations that lower Manhattan was the meteorological equivalent of the jungles of Borneo.

    September 16 2016, Jonah Goldberg writing in the Baltimore Sun, Hillary's health is a valid issue
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    Fallacious enough doctrine when wielded against one's prejudices, but in corroboration of cherished suspicions not without likelihood.

    1857, Herman Melville, chapter 23, in The Confidence-Man
  2. countableuncountableThat which corroborates.
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    Urban Dictionary records at least 66 of the terms found by the present research, but as this dictionary liberally accepts words, definitions, and sample sentences based solely on the say-so of contributors, in the absence of corroboration from other sources the authenticity of some entries must remain dubious.

    2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 2

Synonyms & antonyms

nounconfirmation that some fact or statement is true through the use of documentary evidence

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Late Latincorrōborātiō“strengthening”
  2. Middle Englishcorroboracioun
  3. Englishcorroboration

From Middle English corroboracioun, borrowed from Late Latin corrōborātiō (“strengthening”).

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Translations

Bulgarian потвърждаване, потвърждение
  • потвърждаване (potvărždavane)the act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming
  • потвърждение (potvărždenie)that which corroborates
  • подкрепа (podkrepa)that which corroborates
Dutch bekrachtiging
  • bekrachtigingthe act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming
Greek επιβεβαίωση, επίρρωση
  • επιβεβαίωση (epivevaíosi)the act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming
  • επίρρωση (epírrosi)the act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming
  • επίρρωση (epírrosi)that which corroborates
  • επιβεβαίωση (epivevaíosi)that which corroborates
Portuguese corroboração, corroboração
  • corroboraçãothe act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming
  • corroboraçãothat which corroborates
Russian подтвержде́ние, подкрепле́ние
  • подтвержде́ние (podtverždénije)the act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming
  • подкрепле́ние (podkreplénije)the act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming
  • подтвержде́ние (podtverždénije)that which corroborates
Spanish corroboración
  • corroboraciónthe act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming
Turkish teyit
  • teyitthe act of corroborating, strengthening, or confirming

Rhymes & wordplay

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APA

corroboration. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/corroboration

MLA

“corroboration.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/corroboration. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “corroboration,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/corroboration.

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