proposition
/ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.85 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.
American usage; Countable
noun
The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion; (Aristotelian logic) a predicate of a subject that is denied or affirmed and is connected by a copula.
Countable
Example Sentences
- "The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained."
- "And it would be a fine proposition If I was a stupid girl But honey, I am no one's exception This I have previously learned"
- "Quinn looked into the intersection. Tonya was standing in the middle of it, stance wide, taser in both hands, Quinn's rickshaw on the sidewalk behind her. "Ow," said Quinn, and it came out just shy of a proposition."
- "In November, though, voters will be faced with proposition one. It's a citizen's initiative that will do two things. If passed, it would open up all primaries in Idaho, and it would create a new voting system known as ranked choice voting."
- "Our English nouns remain unchanged, whether they form the subject or the object of a proposition."
- "“Wiktionary is a good dictionary” is a proposition."
Etymology
From Middle English proposicioun, from Old French proposicion, from Latin prōpositiō, from the verb prōponō.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: proposicioun, proposicion
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌpɹɑpəˈzɪʃən/
Usage
- Uncountable
- Countable
- Informal
- American usage
- Transitive verb