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educated guess plural educated guesses
A well-informed guess or estimate based on experience or theoretical knowledge .
Synonyms: guesstimate intelligent guess Antonym: uneducated guess Hypernyms: guess estimate hypothesis Hyponym: SWAG 2005 August 6, Guy Browning, “How to … guess”, in The Guardian [1] Everyone guesses: estimating is how people with a trade guess; educated guesses are what professional people do; hopeless stabs in the dark are what statisticians do.
guess based on experience or knowledge
Catalan: conjectura (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 有 根據 的 推測 / 有 根据 的 推测 ( yǒu gēnjù de tuīcè )
Czech: kvalifikovaný odhad m
Finnish: valistunut arvaus (fi)
French: supposition éclairée f supposition bien informée f hypothèse raisonnée hypothèse raisonnable f hypothèse bien fondée f estimation éclairée f hypothèse éclairée f
German: fundierte Vermutung f
Hebrew: ניחוש מושכל
Italian: stima ragionata f ipotesi plausibile f supposizione plausibile f
Polish: domysł na podstawie doświadczenia m
Portuguese: palpite fundamentado m suposição fundamentada f hipótese fundamentada f hipótese plausível f
Russian: обосно́ванное предположе́ние n ( obosnóvannoje predpoložénije ) , предположе́ние (ru) n ( predpoložénije )
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: učeno pogađanje n učena pretpostavka f
Swedish: kvalificerad gissning c
