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debate
English
Etymology
From Old French debatre (“to fight, contend, debate, also literally to beat down”), from Romanic desbattere, from Latin dis- (“apart, in different directions”) + battuere (“to beat, to fence”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??be?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Noun
debate (countable and uncountable, plural debates)
- An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.
- An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.
- (uncountable) Discussion of opposing views.
- (frequently in the French form débat) A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation, commonly found in the vernacular medieval poetry of many European countries, as well as in medieval Latin.
- (obsolete) Strife, discord.
Translations
Verb
debate (third-person singular simple present debates, present participle debating, simple past and past participle debated)
- (transitive, intransitive) To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena. [from 14th c.]
- August 11, 1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (pseudonym for Richard Steele or (in some later numbers of the journal) Joseph Addison), The Tatler No. 53
- He presents that great soul debating upon the subject of life and death with his intimate friends.
- August 11, 1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (pseudonym for Richard Steele or (in some later numbers of the journal) Joseph Addison), The Tatler No. 53
- (obsolete, intransitive) To fight. [14th-17th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
- Well knew they both his person, sith of late / With him in bloudie armes they rashly did debate.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 15:
- ... wasteful Time debateth with Decay,
- To change your day of youth to sullied night
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:
- (obsolete, transitive) To engage in combat for; to strive for.
- 1838, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic
- Volunteers […] thronged to serve under his banner, and the cause of religion was debated with the same ardour in Spain as on the plains of Palestine.
- 1838, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic
- (transitive) To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide
Derived terms
- debater
Related terms
- debatable
- debation
Translations
Further reading
- debate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- debate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- beated, bed tea, bed-tea, betaed
Albanian
Noun
debate m pl
- indefinite plural of debat
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /de.?ba.t?i/
Noun
debate m (plural debates)
- debate
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:debate.
Verb
debate
- third-person singular present indicative of debater
- second-person singular imperative of debater
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:debate.
Spanish
Noun
debate m (plural debates)
- debate, discussion
Related terms
- debatir
Verb
debate
- Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of debatir.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of debatir.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of debatir.
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feud
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: fyo?od, IPA(key): /fju?d/
- Rhymes: -u?d
Etymology 1
From northern Middle English fede, feide, from Old French faide/feide/fede, from Old High German fehida, from Proto-West Germanic *faihiþu (“hatred, enmity”) (corresponding to foe +? -th), from Proto-Indo-European *pey?- (“hostile”). Old English f?hþ, f?hþu, f?hþo (“hostility, enmity, violence, revenge, vendetta”) was directly inherited from Proto-Germanic *faihiþ?, and is cognate to Modern German Fehde, Dutch vete (“feud”), Danish fejde (“feud, enmity, hostility, war”), and Swedish fejd (“feud, controversy, quarrel, strife”).
Alternative forms
- fede (obsolete)
Noun
feud (plural feuds)
- A state of long-standing mutual hostility.
- You couldn't call it a feud exactly, but there had always been a chill between Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.
- (professional wrestling) A staged rivalry between wrestlers.
- (obsolete) A combination of kindred to avenge injuries or affronts, done or offered to any of their blood, on the offender and all his race.
Related terms
- blood feud
Translations
Verb
feud (third-person singular simple present feuds, present participle feuding, simple past and past participle feuded)
- (intransitive) To carry on a feud.
- The two men began to feud after one of them got a job promotion and the other thought he was more qualified.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Medieval Latin feudum. Doublet of fee.
Alternative forms
- feod
Noun
feud (plural feuds)
- An estate granted to a vassal by a feudal lord in exchange for service.
Synonyms
- fee
- fief
Related terms
- feudal
- feudalism
Translations
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