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The Meaning of credential

  • (a.) Giving a title or claim to credit or confidence; accrediting.
  • (n.) That which gives a title to credit or confidence.
  • (n.) Testimonials showing that a person is entitled to credit, or has right to exercise official power, as the letters given by a government to an ambassador or envoy, or a certificate that one is a duly elected delegate.

Synonyms

authentication , certificate , documentation , credentials , certification , corroboration , security , enfranchisement

Rhymes

confidential , consequential , deferential , differential , essential , existential , experiential , exponential , henschel , hentschel , inconsequential , inferential , influential , jurisprudential , nonessential , nonresidential , potential , preferential , presidential , providential , prudential , quintessential , residential , reverential , sequential , tangential , torrential , vice-presidential