colación
Spanish, noun/kolaˈθjon/
colación is spelled C-O-L-A-C-I-Ó-N (8 letters) and appears 2.0 times per million words in written Spanish, the 22,596th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Colación is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “light meal, collation, snack” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Acto de colar o conferir canónicamente un beneficio eclesiástico, o el de conferir un grado de universidad”.
What does colación mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininelight meal, collation, snack
- 2
femininecollation (comparison)
- 3
feminineconferment of a title or position
- 4
Latin-Americafemininea type of sweet pastry
- 5
femininecollation (conference or discussion in a monastery)
- 6
feminineterritory pertaining to a parish
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Acto de colar o conferir canónicamente un beneficio eclesiástico, o el de conferir un grado de universidad. 2. Cotejo que se hace de una cosa con otra. 3. Conferencia o conversación que tenían los antiguos monjes sobre cosas espirituales. 4. Descripción física de un texto.
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 colación
- colaciones plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce colación?
- /kolaˈθjon/
- [ko.laˈθjõn]
- /kolaˈsjon/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to colación
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is colación in Spanish?
colación appears 2.0 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).