dispute

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a disagreement or argument about something important

   The neighbors had a dispute over the property line that ended with official mediation.

2. 2
   noun

   An argument or disagreement; a failure to agree.

   But is not this dispute over the question whether we have free will or not very like a dispute that we might engage in over the color of a tree — whether it be green or blue?

3. 3
   noun

   Verbal controversy or disagreement; altercation; debate.

   Addicted more / To contemplation and profound dispute.

4. 4
   verb

   to contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another.

   "Now, though thy thoughts are green and tender, as becometh one so young, yet are they those of a thinking brain, and in truth thou dost bring back to my mind certain of those old philosophers with whom in days bygone I have disputed at Athens, and at Becca in Arabia, for thou hast the same crabbed air and dusty look, as though thou hadst passed thy days in reading ill-writ Greek, and been stained dark with the grime of manuscripts."

5. 5
   verb

   to make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss

   Some residents disputed the proposal, saying it was based more on emotion than fact.

6. 6
   verb

   to oppose by argument or assertion; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of

   to dispute assertions or arguments

7. 7
   verb

   to strive or contend about; to contest

   to dispute the possession of the ground with the Spaniards

8. 8
   verb

   to struggle against; to resist

   Dispute it [grief] like a man.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Proto-Italic *putos Latin putus? Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin putō Latin disputo Old French desputerbor. Middle English disputen English dispute From Middle English disputen, from Old French desputer (French disputer), from Latin disputāre (“to dispute, discuss, examine, compute, estimate”), from dis- (“apart”) + putāre (“to reckon, consider, think, originally make clean, clear up”),…