proposition

noun

(countable) An idea, plan, or suggestion offered.

(uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.

(countable, business settings) The terms of a transaction offered.

(countable, US, politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.

(countable, logic) The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion; (Aristotelian logic) a predicate of a subject that is denied or affirmed and is connected by a copula.

(countable, mathematics, philosophy) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.

(countable, mathematics) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.

(informal) A suggestion of sexual intercourse (made to someone with whom one is not sexually involved).

A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; a creed.

(grammar) A complete sentence.

Misspelling of preposition. [(grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.]

(poetic) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.

verb

(transitive, informal) To make an offer or suggestion to (someone).

(transitive, informal) To make a suggestion of sexual intercourse to (someone with whom one is not sexually involved).

Roots

propro- · Latin · forth, forward pono-pos · Latin · put, place

Synonyms for proposition

proposaln suggestionn profferv premisen postulationn hypothesisn assertionn predicationn asseverationn postulatev supposaln avermentn suppositionn

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