Definition of "dictation" in English

noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Dictating, the process of speaking for someone else to write down the words.

   • Since I learned shorthand, I can take dictation at eighty words a minute.

2. (countable, uncountable) An activity in school where the teacher reads a passage aloud and the students write it down.

3. (countable) The act of ordering or commanding.

4. (uncountable) Orders given in an overbearing manner.

   • His habit, even with friends, was that of dictation.