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debate
English
Etymology
From Old French debatre (“to fight, contend, debate, also literally to beat down”), from Romanic desbattere, from Latin dis- (“apart, in different directions”) + battuere (“to beat, to fence”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??be?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Noun
debate (countable and uncountable, plural debates)
- An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.
- An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.
- (uncountable) Discussion of opposing views.
- (frequently in the French form débat) A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation, commonly found in the vernacular medieval poetry of many European countries, as well as in medieval Latin.
- (obsolete) Strife, discord.
Translations
Verb
debate (third-person singular simple present debates, present participle debating, simple past and past participle debated)
- (transitive, intransitive) To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena. [from 14th c.]
- August 11, 1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (pseudonym for Richard Steele or (in some later numbers of the journal) Joseph Addison), The Tatler No. 53
- He presents that great soul debating upon the subject of life and death with his intimate friends.
- August 11, 1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (pseudonym for Richard Steele or (in some later numbers of the journal) Joseph Addison), The Tatler No. 53
- (obsolete, intransitive) To fight. [14th-17th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
- Well knew they both his person, sith of late / With him in bloudie armes they rashly did debate.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 15:
- ... wasteful Time debateth with Decay,
- To change your day of youth to sullied night
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
- (obsolete, transitive) To engage in combat for; to strive for.
- 1838, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic
- Volunteers […] thronged to serve under his banner, and the cause of religion was debated with the same ardour in Spain as on the plains of Palestine.
- 1838, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic
- (transitive) To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide
Derived terms
- debater
Related terms
- debatable
- debation
Translations
Further reading
- debate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- debate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- beated, bed tea, bed-tea, betaed
Albanian
Noun
debate m pl
- indefinite plural of debat
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /de.?ba.t?i/
Noun
debate m (plural debates)
- debate
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:debate.
Verb
debate
- third-person singular present indicative of debater
- second-person singular imperative of debater
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:debate.
Spanish
Noun
debate m (plural debates)
- debate, discussion
Related terms
- debatir
Verb
debate
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of debatir.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of debatir.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of debatir.
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propound
English
Etymology
From the Middle English proponen (“to put forward”), from Latin pr?p?nere (“to put forward”), from pr?- (“before”) + p?nere (“to put”). Doublet of propose.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pr??pa?nd/
Verb
propound (third-person singular simple present propounds, present participle propounding, simple past and past participle propounded)
- (transitive) To put forward; to offer for discussion or debate.
- Synonyms: put forward, advance, offer, propose
- Coordinate terms: exhort, profess
- 2005, Plato, Lesley Brown (translator), Sophist, 243b:
- Each school propounds its own theory without having given any thought to whether we are following what they say or getting left behind.
Related terms
- proponent
- propose
Translations
propound From the web:
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