Usually means: Formal term for addressing someone.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. compellation: Merriam-Webster
  2. compellation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. compellation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. compellation: Wordnik
  5. compellation: Wiktionary
  6. compellation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. compellation: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Compellation, compellation: Dictionary.com
  9. Compellation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. compellation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Compellation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. compellation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. compellation: FreeDictionary.org
  14. compellation: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. compellation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compellation: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compellation: A Word A Day

Definitions from Wiktionary (compellation)

noun:  (archaic, rare) An act of addressing a person by a certain name or title.
noun:  (archaic, rare) A name or title by which someone is addressed or identified; an appellation, a designation.
noun:  (obsolete) An act of addressing or speaking to someone; also, the address or speech so made.

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