discussion
Conversation or debate concerning a particular topic.
Example
“There was then a long discussion of whether to capitalize words like "east".”
Other meanings
Text giving further detail on a subject.
“Under each heading, you will find a discussion.”
The dispersion of a tumour.
Synonyms
- treatment
Related words
- discussional
- metadiscussion
- nondiscussion
- overdiscussion
- prediscussion
- rediscussion
- subdiscussion
- corridor discussion
- e-discussion
- discussionless
- discussionlike
- book discussion group
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "discutiō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “discussion” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.