Synonyms for extension
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Expansion
expansion, augmentation, increase, addition, enlargement, wing, appendage, growth, annex US, annexe UK, amplification, accession
2. Prolongation
prolongation, continuation, lengthening, stretching, production, protraction rare, lengthiness rare
3. Denotation
Other
extent, elongation, space, file extension, stretch, projection, filename extension, reach, dimension, propagation, bulk, spreading
Definitions
- n. 1
The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase.
Next month the house is undergoing an extension.
- n. 2
The state of being extended.
- n. 3
That property of a body by which it occupies a portion of space (or time, e.g. "spatiotemporal extension").
Related words
Forms
- Plural
- extensions → expansions, augmentations, increases, additions…
Choose the right word
An extension, as of a railroad or of a franchise, carries out further something already existing.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- expansion Denmark is experiencing a modest economic expansion.
- enlargement She received an ad for penis enlargement in her inbox.
- appendage May you be touched by His Noodly Appendage.
- continuation Peace is the continuation of war with other means.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| extension | falling | |
| expansion | falling | |
| enlargement | falling | |
| appendage | falling | |
| continuation | falling | |
| prolongation | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- wing1, bulk1
- 5 letters
- space1, reach1, annex2
- 6 letters
- growth1, extent2, annexe
- 7 letters
- stretch1
- 8 letters
- increase2, addition3
- 9 letters
- reference3, expansion3, spreading2, dimension3, accession3, appendage3
- 10 letters
- production3, stretching2, projection3, elongation4, denotation
- 11 letters
- propagation4, enlargement3, lengthening3, protraction, lengthiness
- 12 letters
- continuation5, augmentation4, prolongation
- 13 letters
- amplification5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (annex2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- extension
- Español
- extensión
- Deutsch
- Erweiterung