thesis

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A long piece of writing based on research, especially for a university degree.

   She spent two years writing her doctoral thesis.

2. 2
   noun

   A statement or idea put forward as the main point of an argument.

   The book's central thesis is that cities make people more creative.

Common collocations

• senior thesis Adjective + noun

From Late Middle English thesis (“lowering of the voice”) and also borrowed directly from its etymon Latin thesis (“proposition, thesis; lowering of the voice”), from Ancient Greek θέσῐς (thésĭs, “arrangement, placement, setting; conclusion, position, thesis; lowering of the voice”), from τῐ́θημῐ (tĭ́thēmĭ, “to place, put, set; to put down in writing; to consider as, regard”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do; to place, put”)) + -σῐς (-sĭs, suffix forming abstract nouns or nouns of action, process, or result). The English word is a doublet of deed. Sense 1.1 (“proposition or…

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