advocación
Spanish, noun/adbokaˈθjon/
advocación is spelled A-D-V-O-C-A-C-I-Ó-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish, the 42,860th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Advocación is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “naming or dedication (after a saint)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Patrocinio o tutela de un santo o la Virgen a un lugar religioso (capilla, altar, comunidad, etc.) que le es…”.
What does advocación mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininenaming or dedication (after a saint)
- 2
datedfeminineadvocacy
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Patrocinio o tutela de un santo o la Virgen a un lugar religioso (capilla, altar, comunidad, etc.) que le es consagrado y que toma su nombre. 2. Nombre que se da a las figuras religiosas y a las fechas en que se veneran. 3. Denominación complementaria de la Virgen o un santo, de acuerdo con los misterios, atributos, virtudes propias, o lugares en que se halló una imagen, u otra relación como el lugar de un milagro, etc. 4. Profesión de abogado
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of advocación
- advocaciones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce advocación?
- /adbokaˈθjon/
- [að̞.β̞o.kaˈθjõn]
- /adbokaˈsjon/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to advocación
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is advocación in Spanish?
advocación appears about once in every 1 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).