suggestion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an idea that is suggested

   The picnic was my suggestion.

2. 2
   noun

   a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection

   it was a suggestion we couldn't refuse

3. 3
   noun

   Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)

   make a suggestion

4. 4
   noun

   The act of suggesting.

   Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.

5. 5
   noun

   Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.

   He’s somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.

6. 6
   noun

   the act of inducing hypnosis

7. 7
   noun

   the sequential mental process in which one thought leads to another by association

8. 8
   noun

   persuasion formulated as a suggestion

Etymology

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.