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From Middle English suggestion, from Anglo-Norman suggestioun, sugestiun, from Latin suggestiō, from suggerō (“suggest”, verb), from Latin sub- (“from below, up”) + gerō (“to bring”). Equivalent to suggest + -ion. Related to English up-, cast.
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /səˈd͡ʒɛst.ʃən/, [səˈd͡ʒɛʃ.t͡ʃən]
- (General American) IPA(key): /sə(ɡ)ˈd͡ʒɛs.t͡ʃən/
- Hyphenation: sug‧ges‧tion
suggestion (countable and uncountable, plural suggestions)
- (countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)
make a suggestion
I have a small suggestion for fixing this: 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. - The act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested.
- (law, countable) Information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence.
(something suggested): hint, incitement, proposal
See also Thesaurus:advice
something suggested
- Albanian: sugjerim (sq) m, propozim (sq) m
- Arabic: اِقْتِرَاح m (iqtirāḥ), مُقْتَرَح m (muqtaraḥ)
- Armenian: առաջարկություն (hy) (aṙaǰarkutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: təklif (az)
- Basque: iradokizun
- Belarusian: прапано́ва f (prapanóva)
- Bulgarian: предложе́ние (bg) n (predložénie)
- Burmese: အကြံပေးချက် (my) (a.krampe:hkyak)
- Catalan: suggeriment (ca) m
- Chinese:
Mandarin: 建議 / 建议 (zh) (jiànyì), 提議 / 提议 (zh) (tíyì), 提案 (zh) (tí'àn) - Czech: návrh (cs) m
- Danish: forslag (da) n
- Dutch: voorstel (nl) n
- Esperanto: sugesto
- Estonian: ettepanek
- Finnish: ehdotus (fi), aloite (fi)
- French: suggestion (fr) f, proposition (fr) f
- Galician: suxestión (gl) f
- Georgian: წინადადება (c̣inadadeba)
- German: Vorschlag (de) m
- Greek: πρόταση (el) f (prótasi)
- Hebrew: הַצָּעָה f (hatsa'á)
- Hindi: सुझाव (hi) m (sujhāv), प्रस्ताव (hi) m (prastāv)
- Hungarian: javaslat (hu), tanács (hu), ajánlat (hu)
- Italian: suggestione (it), suggerimento (it), proposta (it) f
- Japanese: 提案 (ja) (ていあん, teian)
- Kazakh: ұсыныс (ūsynys)
- Khmer: ការឲ្យយោបល់ (kaa ʼaoy yoobɑl), យោបល់ (km) (yoobɑl)
- Korean: 제안(提案) (ko) (jean)
- Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: pêşniyar (ku), pêşniyaz (ku), teklîf (ku) - Kyrgyz: сунуш (ky) (sunuş)
- Lao: ຂໍ້ສະເໜີ (khǭ sa nœ̄)
- Latin: suggestiō f
- Macedonian: предлог m (predlog)
- Malay: cadangan (ms)
- Malayalam: നിർദ്ദേശം (niṟddēśaṁ)
- Mongolian:
Cyrillic: төлөвлөгөө (mn) (tölövlögöö)
Mongolian script: ᠲᠥᠯᠦᠪᠯᠡᠭᠡ (tölüblege) - Norwegian:
Bokmål: forslag n
Nynorsk: forslag (nn) n - Persian:
Iranian Persian: پیشْنِهاد (pišnehâd) - Plautdietsch: Väaschlach m
- Polish: propozycja (pl) f, sugestia (pl) f
- Portuguese: sugestão (pt) f, proposta (pt) f
- Romanian: sugestionare f, sugestie (ro), propunere (ro)
- Russian: предложе́ние (ru) n (predložénije)
- Sami:
Northern Sami: evttohus - Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пре́длог m, прије́длог m
Latin: prédlog m, prijédlog (sh) m - Slovak: návrh (sk) m
- Slovene: predlog (sl) m
- Spanish: sugerencia (es) f, propuesta (es) f
- Swedish: förslag (sv) n
- Tagalog: mungkahi
- Tajik: пешниҳод (tg) (pešnihod), таклиф (taklif)
- Thai: ข้อเสนอ (th) (kɔ̂ɔ-sà-nə̌ə), ข้อเสนอแนะ (kɔ̂ɔ-sà-nə̌ə-nɛ́)
- Turkish: öneri (tr), teklif (tr)
- Turkmen: teklip
- Ukrainian: пропози́ція (uk) f (propozýcija)
- Urdu: سِفارِش f (sifāriś), تَجْوِیز f (tajvīz)
- Uyghur: تەكلىپ (teklip)
- Uzbek: taklif (uz), taqdim (uz)
- Vietnamese: sự gợi ý (vi)
- Yiddish: פֿאָרשלאָג m (forshlog)
act of suggestion
- Bulgarian: предложе́ние (bg) n (predložénie), предлагане n (predlagane)
- Catalan: suggestió (ca) f, suggeriment (ca) m
- Czech: návrh (cs) m
- Finnish: ehdottaminen (fi)
- Hungarian: javaslat (hu)
- Italian: suggerimento (it) m
- Polish: sugestia (pl) f
- Portuguese: sugestão (pt) f
- Romanian: sugestionare f, sugestie (ro) f
- Sami:
Northern Sami: evttoheapmi - Spanish: sugestión (es) f
the act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested
law: information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence
- Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
suggestion
Borrowed from Latin suggestiōnem.
suggestion f (plural suggestions)
- suggestion; proposal
- suggestion (psychology, etc.)
“suggestion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Borrowed from Latin suggestiō.
suggestion oblique singular, f (oblique plural suggestions, nominative singular **suggestion, nominative plural suggestions)