Meanings
- colloquialdialectalA large amount, a power.
[…] a poweration o' fleas all-along on the kitlings.
2023 May 20, Beatrice Knight, Alverstone: A Regency Family Saga of Love and War, Maiden Press, →ISBN, page 3434 more examples
[…] he had a poweration of wisdom and learning; he was the greatest […]
1804, Sporting Magazine: Or, Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf, the Chase and Every Other Diversion Interesting to the Man of Pleasure, Enterprize, and Spirit, page 111[…] ride out in scarlet with a poweration of gay ladies. The quality then knew 'ow to behave theirselves.
1894, The Twentieth Century, page 261[…] a poweration of stuff off Taplow; nowt but a few things for my own pot, which a man's a right to.
1939, Edward Joseph O'Brien, John Cournos, The Best British Short Stories of ...Signed then by a poweration of names nor he nor anyone else had heard of. The Lancers had charged here too, it was told. There was a dead horse down the way. All about the steps, flowers were strewn and trampled, where the flower-sellers' stalls had[…]
2002 April 1, Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 502
Origin
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poweration. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/poweration
“poweration.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/poweration. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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