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/ˈkwɛs.tʃən/ · noun

Meaning

A worded or expressed sentence, phrase, or only a word on its own, which asks for information, a reply, or a response; an interrogative..

Definitions by Sense

1. A worded or expressed sentence, phrase, or only a word on its own, which asks for information, a reply, or a response; an interrogative.
2. A subject or topic for consideration or investigation.
3. A doubt or challenge about the truth, accuracy, or validity of a matter.
4. A proposal to a meeting as a topic for deliberation.
5. (now archaic, historical, chiefly with definite article) Interrogation by torture.
6. (obsolete) Talk; conversation; speech.
7. (transitive) To ask questions of; to interrogate; to ask for information.
8. (transitive) To raise doubts about; have doubts about.

Example Sentences

What is your question?

I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.

Can I ask you two a question? / Please, Christ, yes. / How can you two live like this? / How can... / Don't google the question, Moss!

When bodies change quickly or noticeably, assumptions often follow—and so does the desire to ask one potentially fraught question: Did medication play a role?

The question of seniority will be discussed at the meeting.

There was a question of which material to use.

I've ordered it all, but there’s still the question of who’s going to pay.

The question of the plausibility of the counter-factual is seen as key in all three discussions of allohistorical fiction (as it is in Demandt's and Ferguson's examinations of allohistory) (cf. Rodiek 25–26; Ritter 15–16; Helbig 32).

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• questions
• quæstion
• questioning
• questioned

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