suggestion

English

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”). Related to English up-, cast.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈd͡ʒɛstʃən/, [səˈd͡ʒɛʃtʃən]
• IPA^(key): /səɡˈd͡ʒɛstʃən/, /səˈd͡ʒɛstʃən/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: sug‧ges‧tion

Noun

suggestion (countable and uncountable, plural suggestions)

1. (countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)

   I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.

   make a suggestion

   Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.

2. (uncountable) The act of suggesting.

   Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.

3. (countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.

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

4. The act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested.
5. (law, countable) information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence

Synonyms

• (something suggested): hint, incitement, proposal
• See also Thesaurus:advice

Derived terms

Derived terms

• autosuggestion
• hypnotic suggestion

• power of suggestion
• suggestion box

Related terms

• suggest
• suggestive

Translations

something suggested

• Albanian: sugjerim (sq) m, propozim (sq) m
• Arabic: اِقْتِرَاح m (iqtirāḥ), مُقْتَرَح m (muqtaraḥ)
• Armenian: առաջարկություն (hy) (aṙaǰarkutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: təklif (az)
• Basque: iradokizun
• Belarusian: прапано́ва f (prapanóva)
• Bulgarian: предложе́ние (bg) n (predložénie)
• Burmese: အကြံပေးချက် (my) (a.krampe:hkyak)
• Catalan: suggeriment m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 建議／建议 (zh) (jiànyì), 建议 (zh) (jiànyì), 提議／提议 (zh) (tíyì), 提议 (zh) (tíyì), 提案 (zh) (tí'àn)

• Czech: návrh (cs) m
• Danish: forslag n
• Dutch: voorstel (nl) n
• Esperanto: sugesto
• Estonian: ettepanek
• Finnish: ehdotus (fi)
• French: suggestion (fr) f, proposition (fr) f
• Galician: suxestión (gl) f
• Georgian: წინადადება (c̣inadadeba)
• German: Vorschlag (de) m
• Greek: πρόταση (el) f (prótasi)
• Hindi: सुझाव (hi) m (sujhāv), प्रस्ताव (hi) m (prastāv)
• Hungarian: javaslat (hu)
• Italian: suggestione (it), suggerimento (it), proposta (it) f
• Japanese: 提案 (ja) (ていあん, teian)
• Kazakh: ұсыныс (kk) (ūsynys)
• Khmer: ការឲ្យយោបល់ (kaa ʼaoy yoobɑl), យោបល់ (km) (yoobɑl)
• Korean: 제안(提案) (ko) (jean)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: pêşniyar (ku), pêşniyaz (ku), teklîf (ku)

• Kyrgyz: сунуш (ky) (sunuş)
• Lao: ຂໍ້ສະເໜີ (khǭ sa nœ̄)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: suggestiō f
• Macedonian: предлог m (predlog)
• Malay: cadangan
• Malayalam: നിർദ്ദേശം (niṟddēśaṁ)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: төлөвлөгөө (mn) (tölövlögöö)

  Uyghurjin: ᠲᠥᠯᠦᠪᠯᠡᠭᠡ (tölüblege)

• Northern Sami: evttohus
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forslag n

  Nynorsk: forslag (nn) n

• Persian: پیشنهاد (fa) (pišnehâd)
• Plautdietsch: Väaschlach m
• Polish: propozycja (pl) f, sugestia (pl) f
• Portuguese: sugestão (pt) f, proposta (pt) f
• Romanian: sugestionare f, sugestie (ro), propunere (ro)
• Russian: предложе́ние (ru) n (predložénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пре́длог m, прије́длог m

  Roman: prédlog m, prijédlog (sh) m

• Slovak: návrh (sk) m
• Slovene: predlog (sl) m
• Spanish: sugerencia (es) f, propuesta (es) f
• Swedish: förslag (sv) n
• Tajik: пешниҳод (tg) (pešnihod), таклиф (taklif)
• Thai: ข้อเสนอ (th) (kɔ̂ɔ-sà-nə̌ə), ข้อเสนอแนะ (kɔ̂ɔ-sà-nə̌ə-nɛ́)
• Turkish: öneri (tr), teklif (tr)
• Turkmen: teklip
• Ukrainian: пропози́ція (uk) f (propozýcija)
• Uyghur: تەكلىپ (teklip)
• Uzbek: taklif (uz), taqdim (uz)
• Vietnamese: sự gợi ý (vi)
• Yiddish: פֿאָרשלאָג m (forshlog)

act of suggestion

• Bulgarian: внушение (bg) n (vnušenie)
• Catalan: suggestió f, suggeriment m
• Czech: návrh (cs) m
• Finnish: ehdottaminen (fi)
• Italian: suggerimento (it) m
• Northern Sami: evttoheapmi
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: sugestia (pl) f
• Portuguese: sugestão (pt) f
• Romanian: sugestionare f, sugestie (ro) f
• Spanish: sugestión (es) f

(psychology) something implied

• Catalan: suggestió f
• Finnish: käsitys (fi), mielikuva (fi)
• German: Suggestion (de) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: sugestão (pt) f
• Spanish: sugestión (es) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} propunere (ro) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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Finnish

Noun

suggestion

1. (deprecated template usage) genitive singular of suggestio

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin suggestiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syɡ.ʒɛs.tjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

suggestion f (plural suggestions)

1. suggestion; proposal
2. suggestion (psychology, etc.)

Derived terms

• boîte à suggestions

Related terms

• suggérer
• suggestible
• suggestionner

Further reading

• “suggestion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Old French

Alternative forms

• suggecioun
• suggestiun
• suggestioun
• sougestion

• sugestiun
• suggecioun
• sujecion

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin suggestiō.

Noun

suggestion oblique singular, f (oblique plural suggestions, nominative singular suggestion, nominative plural suggestions)

1. suggestion; proposal

References

• suggestion on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub