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suggestion

  • noun
  • sug·ges·tion
  • /səˈd͡ʒɛst.ʃən/

Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)

Example

“I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.”

Other meanings

  1. The act of suggesting.

    “Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.”

  2. Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.

    “He’s somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.”

Word history

From Latin "sub-" (from below, up).

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “suggestion” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.