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say it: suh-JES-chuhn
suggestion is a noun meaning "an idea that is suggested". It carries 6 recorded senses.
an idea that is suggested
“the picnic was her suggestion”
a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection
“it was a suggestion we couldn't refuse”
a just detectable amount
“he speaks French with a trace of an accent”
“a hint mockery in her manner”
“a tint of glamour”
persuasion formulated as a suggestion
the sequential mental process in which one thought leads to another by association
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for suggestion come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.