thesis

1. 1.

   an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument

   Broaderpremise
2. 2.

   a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree

   Synonymsdissertation

   Broadertreatise

Other forms of thesis

plural

theses

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.

Questions about thesis

What does thesis mean?

thesis means "an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thesis?

thesis has 2 syllables: the-sis. The stress falls on "the". In IPA it is /ˈθisəs/.

What is another word for thesis?

Close synonyms include dissertation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is thesis a common word?

thesis is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.