English Explanatory Dictionary

proposition

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
  2. An idea, plan, or suggestion offered.
  3. A suggestion of sexual intercourse (made to someone with whom one is not sexually involved).
  4. The terms of a transaction offered.
  5. In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.
  6. A complete sentence.
  7. The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion; (Aristotelian logic) a predicate of a subject that is denied or affirmed and is connected by a copula.
  8. An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
  9. An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.
  10. A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; a creed.
  11. The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.
  12. Misspelling of preposition.
verb
  1. To make an offer or suggestion to (someone).
  2. To make a suggestion of sexual intercourse to (someone with whom one is not sexually involved).

Pronunciation

prŏ'pə-zĭshʹən /ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/ en-us-proposition.ogg

Word forms

proposition propositions propositioning propositioned

Etymology

From Middle English proposicioun, from Old French proposicion, from Latin prōpositiō, from the verb prōponō.

Synonyms

proposal suggestion statement make a pass pass come on to hit on

Related words

propose

Derived words

categorical proposition counterproposition discretive proposition metaproposition proplet propositional proposition bet propositionize propositionless proposition nation proposition player pseudoproposition Pythagorean proposition subproposition value proposition value proposition canvas

Translations

Arabic: اِقْتِرَاح Arabic: مُقْتَرَح Belarusian: прапано́ва Bulgarian: предложе́ние Chinese Mandarin: 建議 /建议 Chinese Mandarin: 提議 /提议 Chinese Mandarin: 提案 Czech: návrh Danish: forslag Dutch: propositie Dutch: voorstel Finnish: esitys Finnish: ehdotus French: proposition Galician: proposición German: Vorschlag Greek: πρόταση Ido: propoziciono Ido: propozajo Italian: proposizione Japanese: 提案 Korean: 제안 Macedonian: предлог Norman: proposition Old English: fōresetnes Plautdietsch: Väaschlach Polish: propozycja Portuguese: proposição Portuguese: proposta Romanian: propunere Romanian: sugestie Romansh: proposiziun Russian: предложе́ние Serbo-Croatian: предлог Serbo-Croatian: приједлог Serbo-Croatian: predlog Serbo-Croatian: prijedlog Slovak: návrh Slovene: predlog Spanish: propuesta Swedish: förslag Thai: ประพจน์ Ukrainian: пропози́ція Vietnamese: kiến nghị Vietnamese: đề nghị Finnish: ehdottaa Latin: prōpositō
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