suggestion

English

Etymology

From Middle English suggestion, from Anglo-Norman suggestioun, sugestiun, from Latin suggestiō, from suggerō (“suggest”, verb), from Latin sub- (“from below, up”) + gerō (“to bring”). Related to English up-, cast.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /səˈd͡ʒɛstʃən/, [səˈd͡ʒɛʃtʃən]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /səɡˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃən/, /səˈd͡ʒɛst͡ʃən/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: sug‧ges‧tion

Noun

suggestion (countable and uncountable, plural suggestions)

1. (countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)

   make a suggestion

   I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.

   Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.

2. (uncountable) The act of suggesting.

   Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.

3. (countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.

   He’s somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.

4. The act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested.
5. (law, countable) Information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence.

Synonyms

• (something suggested): hint, incitement, proposal
• See also Thesaurus:advice

Derived terms

• autosuggestion
• hypnotic suggestion
• posthypnotic suggestion
• power of suggestion
• self-suggestion
• serving suggestion
• suggestion box

 

Related terms

• suggest
• suggestive

 

Translations

something suggested

• Albanian: sugjerim (sq) m, propozim (sq) m
• Arabic: اِقْتِرَاح m (iqtirāḥ), مُقْتَرَح m (muqtaraḥ)
• Armenian: առաջարկություն (hy) (aṙaǰarkutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: təklif (az)
• Basque: iradokizun
• Belarusian: прапано́ва f (prapanóva)
• Bulgarian: предложе́ние (bg) n (predložénie)
• Burmese: အကြံပေးချက် (my) (a.krampe:hkyak)
• Catalan: suggeriment (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 建議／建议 (zh) (jiànyì), 提議／提议 (zh) (tíyì), 提案 (zh) (tí'àn)

• Czech: návrh (cs) m
• Danish: forslag (da) n
• Dutch: voorstel (nl) n
• Esperanto: sugesto
• Estonian: ettepanek
• Finnish: ehdotus (fi), aloite (fi)
• French: suggestion (fr) f, proposition (fr) f
• Galician: suxestión (gl) f
• Georgian: წინადადება (c̣inadadeba)
• German: Vorschlag (de) m
• Greek: πρόταση (el) f (prótasi)
• Hebrew: הַצָּעָה f (hatsa'á)
• Hindi: सुझाव (hi) m (sujhāv), प्रस्ताव (hi) m (prastāv)
• Hungarian: javaslat (hu), tanács (hu), ajánlat (hu)
• Italian: suggestione (it), suggerimento (it), proposta (it) f
• Japanese: 提案 (ja) (ていあん, teian)
• Kazakh: ұсыныс (ūsynys)
• Khmer: ការឲ្យយោបល់ (kaa ʼaoy yoobɑl), យោបល់ (km) (yoobɑl)
• Korean: 제안(提案) (ko) (jean)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pêşniyar (ku), pêşniyaz (ku), teklîf (ku)

• Kyrgyz: сунуш (ky) (sunuş)
• Lao: ຂໍ້ສະເໜີ (khǭ sa nœ̄)
• Latin: suggestiō f
• Macedonian: предлог m (predlog)
• Malay: cadangan (ms)
• Malayalam: നിർദ്ദേശം (niṟddēśaṁ)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: төлөвлөгөө (mn) (tölövlögöö)

  Mongolian: ᠲᠥᠯᠦᠪᠯᠡᠭᠡ (tölüblege)

• Northern Sami: evttohus
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forslag n

  Nynorsk: forslag (nn) n

• Persian: پیشنهاد (fa) (pišnehâd)
• Plautdietsch: Väaschlach m
• Polish: propozycja (pl) f, sugestia (pl) f
• Portuguese: sugestão (pt) f, proposta (pt) f
• Romanian: sugestionare f, sugestie (ro), propunere (ro)
• Russian: предложе́ние (ru) n (predložénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пре́длог m, прије́длог m

  Roman: prédlog m, prijédlog (sh) m

• Slovak: návrh (sk) m
• Slovene: predlog (sl) m
• Spanish: sugerencia (es) f, propuesta (es) f
• Swedish: förslag (sv) n
• Tajik: пешниҳод (tg) (pešnihod), таклиф (taklif)
• Thai: ข้อเสนอ (th) (kɔ̂ɔ-sà-nə̌ə), ข้อเสนอแนะ (kɔ̂ɔ-sà-nə̌ə-nɛ́)
• Turkish: öneri (tr), teklif (tr)
• Turkmen: teklip
• Ukrainian: пропози́ція (uk) f (propozýcija)
• Uyghur: تەكلىپ (teklip)
• Uzbek: taklif (uz), taqdim (uz)
• Vietnamese: sự gợi ý (vi)
• Yiddish: פֿאָרשלאָג m (forshlog)

act of suggestion

• Bulgarian: внушение (bg) n (vnušenie)
• Catalan: suggestió (ca) f, suggeriment (ca) m
• Czech: návrh (cs) m
• Finnish: ehdottaminen (fi)
• Hungarian: javaslat (hu)
• Italian: suggerimento (it) m
• Northern Sami: evttoheapmi
• Polish: sugestia (pl) f
• Portuguese: sugestão (pt) f
• Romanian: sugestionare f, sugestie (ro) f
• Spanish: sugestión (es) f

psychology: something implied

• Catalan: suggestió (ca) f
• Finnish: käsitys (fi), mielikuva (fi)
• German: Suggestion (de) f
• Portuguese: sugestão (pt) f
• Spanish: sugestión (es) f

the act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested

• Finnish: suggestio (fi)
• Hungarian: szuggesztió (hu)

law: information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence

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Translations to be checked

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} propunere (ro) f

Finnish

Noun

suggestion

1. genitive singular of suggestio

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin suggestiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syɡ.ʒɛs.tjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

suggestion f (plural suggestions)

1. suggestion; proposal
2. suggestion (psychology, etc.)

Derived terms

• boîte à suggestions

Related terms

• suggérer
• suggestible
• suggestionner

Further reading

• “suggestion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old French

Alternative forms

• suggecioun
• suggestiun
• suggestioun
• sougestion
• sugestiun
• suggecioun
• sujecion

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin suggestiō.

Noun

suggestion oblique singular, f (oblique plural suggestions, nominative singular suggestion, nominative plural suggestions)

1. suggestion; proposal

References

• suggestion on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub