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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French discussion, from Late Latin discussiō, from Latin discutiō.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /dɪˈskʌʃən/
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /dɪsˈkʊʃən/
- Hyphenation: dis‧cus‧sion
Audio (US) (file)
Noun[edit]
discussion (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.
- 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[1], 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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Translations[edit]
conversation 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[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Late Latin discussiōnem, from Latin discutiōnem.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /dis.ky.sjɔ̃/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Homophone: discussions
Noun[edit]
discussion 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
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Further reading[edit]
- “discussion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Late Latin discussiō, from Latin discutiō.
Noun[edit]
discussion f (plural discussions)
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Late Latin discussiō, from Latin discutiō.
Noun[edit]
discussion oblique singular, f (oblique plural discussions, nominative singular discussion, nominative plural discussions)
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