recessional
adjective, noun
recessional is an adjective meaning “Of or relating to recession or withdrawal, particularly at the end of a religious service or wedding” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-C-E-S-S-I-O-N-A-L, and it appears about once in every 16 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does recessional mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to recession or withdrawal, particularly at the end of a religious service or wedding.
A recessional hymn is sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room.
noun
- 1
Music played during a church recession.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of recessional
- recessionals plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is recessional?
Recessional appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does recessional come from?
From recession + -al.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).