opinion
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- //əˈpɪn.jən//
A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing.
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A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing.
I would like to know your opinions on the new filing system.
In my opinion, white chocolate is better than milk chocolate.
Every man is a fool in some man's opinion.
We invite you to state your opinions about the suggestions.
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The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
I haue bought / Golden Opinions from all ſorts of people, […]
Friendship […] gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.
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obsolèteFavorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
Thou haſt redeemed thy loſt opinion, […]
This gain’d Agricola much opinion; who […] had made ſuch early progreſs into laborious […] enterpriſes.
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obsolèteObstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
[…] your reaſons at Dinner haue been ſharpe & ſententious: pleaſant without ſcurillitie, wittie without affection, audatious without impudencie, learned without opinion, and ſtrange without hereſie: […]
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The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
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A judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible.
Étymologie
From English opine + -ion, from Middle English opinion, opinioun, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French opinion, from Latin opīniō, from opīnor (“to opine”). Displaced native Old English wēna.
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archaïqueTo have or express as an opinion.
But if (as some opinion) King Ahasuerus were Artaxerxes Mnemon[…], our magnified Cyrus was his second Brother […]
Formes
- pluriel
- opinions
- passé
- opinioned
- participe passé
- opinioned
- participe présent
- opinioning
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- opinions
opinion · A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing.
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