suggestion
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Anglo-Norman suggestioun, Old French suggestion (modern French suggestion), from Latin suggestio, from suggero (“suggest”).
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
suggestion (countable and uncountable; plural suggestions)
- (countable) Something suggested.
- I have a small suggestion: try lifting the left side up a bit.
- Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.
- (uncountable) The act of suggesting.
- Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.
- (countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
- He's somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.
[edit] Synonyms
- (something suggested): proposal
- See also Wikisaurus:advice
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[edit] Translations
something suggested
act of suggestion
(psychology) something implied
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[edit] Finnish
[edit] Noun
suggestion
- Genitive singular form of suggestio.
[edit] French
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
suggestion f. (plural suggestions)
- suggestion; proposal
- suggestion (psychology, etc.)
