Definitions for credential

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credential cre·den·tial

Spelling: [kri-den-shuh l]

IPA: /krɪˈdɛn ʃəl/

Credential is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 1028 anagrams from letters in credential (acdeeilnrt).

Definitions for credential

noun

1. Usually, credentials. evidence of authority, status, rights, entitlement to privileges, or the like, usually in written form:
2. anything that provides the basis for confidence, belief, credit, etc.

adjective

1. providing the basis for confidence, belief, credit, etc.

verb (used with object)

1. to grant credentials to, especially educational and professional ones:

Origin of credential

1425-75; late Middle English credencial Medieval Latin crēdenti(a) credence + -al¹

Examples for credential

I have every credential to prove my extraordinary announcement.

Students with more experience do better--but need the credential less.

The only credential he could produce was the testimony of his whole life.

Somebody said he was in the hall a moment ago, on a Ripton credential.

At one point in time, there was a code of conduct: creed and credential.

Now, of course, I don't think that education is only a credential.

Especially to the extent that this helps drive a lot of additional spending on said credential.

But the youth had not undertaken to deliver that credential, and he never did so.

The credential of having a lot of Washington, D.C., experience is not “a calling card” among voters any more.

The unuttered utterance is his credential, to be restored to the Bestower of it.