suggestion
pronunciation
How to pronounce suggestion in British English:
UK [səˈdʒestʃən]
How to pronounce suggestion in American English:
US [səˈdʒestʃən]
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- Noun:
- an idea that is suggested
- a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection
- a just detectable amount
- persuasion formulated as a suggestion
- the sequential mental process in which one thought leads to another by association
- the act of inducing hypnosis
Word Origin
- suggestion (n.)
- mid-14c., "a prompting to evil," from Anglo-French and Old French suggestioun "hint, temptation," from Latin suggestionem (nominative suggestio) "an addition, intimation, suggestion," noun of action from suggestus, past participle of suggerere "bring up, bring under, lay beneath; furnish, afford, supply; prompt," from sub "up" (see sub-) + gerere "bring, carry" (see gest). Sense evolution in Latin is from "heap up, build" to "bring forward an idea." Meaning "proposal, statement, declaration" appeared by late 14c., but original English notion of "evil prompting" remains in suggestive. Hypnotism sense is from 1887.
Synonym
Example
- 1. But it 's certain that the suggestion is dubious .
- 2. They suspect folklore and the power of suggestion instead .
- 3. I 'm giving you the most economically efficient suggestion .
- 4. Christopher eppig and his colleagues make their suggestion in the proceedings of the royal society .
- 5. Another suggestion is to pray at meals .