discussion
English
editEtymology
editFrom Old French discussion, from Late Latin discussiō, from Latin discutiō. By surface analysis, discuss + -ion.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /dɪˈskʌʃən/
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /dɪsˈkʊʃən/
- Hyphenation: dis‧cus‧sion
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
editdiscussion (countable and uncountable, plural discussions)
- Conversation or debate concerning a particular topic.
- There was then a long discussion of whether to capitalize words like "east".
- This topic is not open to discussion.
- My discussion with the professor was very enlightening.
- 2022 June 24, Mike Isaac and Ryan Mac, “Meta clamps down on internal discussion of Roe v. Wade’s overturning.”, in The New York Times[1]:
- In the May 12 memo, Meta said it had previously allowed open discussion of abortion at work but later recognized that it had led to “significant disruptions in the workplace given unique legal complexities and the number of people affected by the issue.”
- Text giving further detail on a subject.
- Under each heading, you will find a discussion.
- 2014 October 14, David Malcolm, “The Great War Re-Remembered: Allohistory and Allohistorical Fiction”, in Martin Löschnigg, Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz, editors, The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film[2], Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG., →ISBN, page 173:
- The question of the plausibility of the counter-factual is seen as key in all three discussions of allohistorical fiction (as it is in Demandt's and Ferguson's examinations of allohistory) (cf. Rodiek 25–26; Ritter 15–16; Helbig 32).
- (medicine, obsolete) The dispersion of a tumour.
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editTranslations
editconversation or debate
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text giving further detail on a subject
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Further reading
edit- “discussion”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- discussion in Britannica Dictionary
- discussion in Macmillan Collocations Dictionary
- discussion in Sentence collocations by Cambridge Dictionary
- discussion in Ozdic collocation dictionary
- discussion in WordReference English Collocations
French
editEtymology
editFrom Late Latin discussiōnem, from Latin discutiōnem.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdiscussion f (plural discussions)
- debate, argument (a civil exchange of contradictory points of view)
- argument, (verbal) fight, row (a vivid, uncivil exchange of emotional points of view)
- Synonyms: chamaillerie, dispute, querelle
- (colloquial) conversation, discussion (an exchange of words neither contradictory nor conflictual)
- Synonyms: bavardage, conversation, dialogue, entretien
Synonyms
editDerived terms
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editFurther reading
edit- “discussion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
editEtymology
editFrom Late Latin discussiō, from Latin discutiō.
Noun
editdiscussion f (plural discussions)
Old French
editEtymology
editFrom Late Latin discussiō, from Latin discutiō.
Noun
editdiscussion oblique singular, f (oblique plural discussions, nominative singular discussion, nominative plural discussions)
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