suggestion

English

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Etymology

From Anglo-Norman suggestioun, Old French suggestion (modern French suggestion), from Latin suggestio, from suggero (“suggest”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /səˈdʒɛstjən/, X-SAMPA: /s@"dZEstj@n/
• IPA: /səɡˈdʒɛstʃən/

• Audio (US)

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Noun

suggestion (countable and uncountable; plural suggestions)

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

   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.

Synonyms

• (something suggested): proposal
• See also Wikisaurus:advice

Derived terms

• autosuggestion
• hypnotic suggestion
• power of suggestion
• suggestion box

Related terms

• suggest
• suggestive

Translations

something suggested

• Arabic: اقتراح (ar) (iqtirāḥ) m, مقترح (ar) (muqtaraḥ) m
• Armenian: առաջարկություն (hy) (aṙaǰarkutʿyun)
• Azeri: təklif (az)
• Basque: iradokizun (eu)
• Belarusian: прапанова (be) (prapanóva) f
• Bulgarian: предложение (bg) (predložénie) n
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: návrh (cs) m
• Danish: forslag (da) n
• Dutch: voorstel (nl) n
• Estonian: ettepanek (et)
• Finnish: ehdotus (fi)
• French: suggestion (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Vorschlag (de) m
• Hindi: सुझाव (hi) (sujhāv), प्रस्ताव (hi) (prastāv)
• Hungarian: javaslat (hu)
• Japanese: 提案 (ja) (ていあん, teian)
• Khmer: ការឲ្យយោបល់ (km) (kaa ’aoy youbɑl), យោបល់ (km) (youbɑl)

• Korean: 제안 (ko) (je-an) (提案 (ko))
• Macedonian: предлог (mk) (prédlog) m
• Malay: cadangan (ms)
• Norwegian: forslag (no) n
• Persian: پیشنهاد (fa) (pišnehâd)
• Polish: propozycja (pl) f
• Portuguese: sugestão (pt) f
• Romanian: sugestionare (ro) f, sugestie (ro), propunere (ro)
• Russian: предложение (ru) (predložénije) n
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: предлог (sh) m

  Roman: predlog (sh) m

• Slovak: návrh (sk) m
• Slovene: predlog (sl) m
• Spanish: sugestión (es) f, propuesta (es) f
• Swedish: förslag (sv) n
• Thai: ข้อเสนอแนะ (th) (kôr sà-nĕr náe)
• Turkish: öneri (tr), teklif (tr)
• Ukrainian: пропозиція (uk) (propozýcija) f
• Vietnamese: sự gợi ý (vi)

act of suggestion

• Czech: návrh (cs) m
• Finnish: ehdottaminen (fi)
• Portuguese: sugestão (pt) f

• Romanian: sugestionare (ro) f, sugestie (ro) f
• Spanish: sugestión (es) f

(psychology) something implied

• Finnish: käsitys (fi), mielikuva (fi)
• German: Suggestion (de) f

• Portuguese: sugestão (pt) f
• Spanish: sugestión (es) f

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Translations to be checked

• Romanian: propunere f

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Finnish

Noun

suggestion

1. Genitive singular form of suggestio.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA: /syg.ʒɛs.tjɔ̃/

• Audio

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Noun

suggestion f (plural suggestions)

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

Related terms

• suggérer