different between offer vs suggestion

English

Alternative forms

• offre (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??f?(?)/, /???f?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??f?/
• (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA^(key): /??f?/
• Rhymes: -?f?(?), -??f?(?)
• Hyphenation: of?fer

Etymology 1

From Middle English offer, from Old English offrian (“offer or make a sacrifice”) rather than from Old French offre (“offer”), from offrir (“to offer”), from Latin offer? (“to present, bring before”). Compare North Frisian offer (“sacrifice, donation, fee”), Dutch offer (“offering, sacrifice”), German Opfer (“victim, sacrifice”), Danish offer (“victim, sacrifice”), Icelandic offr (“offering”). See verb below.

Noun

offer (plural offers)

1. A proposal that has been made.
2. Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered.

3. (law) An invitation to enter into a binding contract communicated to another party which contains terms sufficiently definite to create an enforceable contract if the other party accepts the invitation.

Derived terms

• make an offer

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English offren, offrien, from Old English offrian (“to offer, sacrifice, bring an oblation”), from Latin offer? (“to present, bestow, bring before”, literally “to bring to”), from Latin ob + fer? (“bring, carry”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?er-, *b?r?- (“to carry, bear”), later reinforced by Old French offrir (“to offer”). Cognate with Old Frisian offria (“to offer”), Old Dutch offr?n (“to offer”), German opfern (“to offer”), Old Norse offra (“to offer”). More at ob-, bear.

Verb

offer (third-person singular simple present offers, present participle offering, simple past and past participle offered)

1. (intransitive) To propose or express one's willingness (to do something).

2. (transitive) To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest.

3. (transitive) To place at someone’s disposal; to present (something) to be either accepted or turned down.

   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
4. (transitive) To present (something) to God or gods as a gesture of worship, or for a sacrifice.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Exodus xxix. 36

     Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement.

5. (transitive, engineering) To place (something) in a position where it can be added to an existing mechanical assembly.
6. (transitive) To bid, as a price, reward, or wages.

7. (intransitive) To happen, to present itself.

   • The occasion offers, and the youth complies.
8. (obsolete) To make an attempt; typically used with at.
   • 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain

     I will not offer at that I cannot master.
9. (transitive) To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to-infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Related terms

• offering
• offertory
• oblate
• oblation

Translations

Etymology 3

off +? -er

Noun

offer (plural offers)

1. (used in combinations from phrasal verbs) agent noun of off

Anagrams

• offre, reffo

Danish

Noun

offer n (singular definite ofret or offeret, plural indefinite ofre)

1. sacrifice
2. victim

Inflection

Derived terms

• slagteoffer
• ofre

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??f?r/
• Hyphenation: of?fer
• Rhymes: -?f?r

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch offere, from Old Dutch [Term?].

Noun

offer n (plural offers, diminutive offertje n)

1. sacrifice
2. victim

Derived terms

• brandoffer
• offeren
• plengoffer
• reukoffer
• slachtoffer
• zoenoffer

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

offer

1. first-person singular present indicative of offeren
2. imperative of offeren

Latin

Verb

offer

1. second-person singular present active imperative of offer?

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse offr

Noun

offer n (definite singular offeret, indefinite plural offer or ofre, definite plural ofra or ofrene)

1. a sacrifice
2. a victim, a casualty

Derived terms

• dødsoffer
• selvmordsoffer

References

• “offer” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse offr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?r/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

offer n (definite singular offeret, indefinite plural offer, definite plural offera)

1. a sacrifice
2. a victim, a casualty

Derived terms

• dødsoffer

References

• “offer” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse offr.

Pronunciation

Noun

offer n

1. sacrifice
2. victim

Declension

Anagrams

• Roffe

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin offerenda.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /??f?r/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /??far/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /?o?f?r/, /??f?r/

Noun

offer f (plural offerau or offeriau or offrau)

1. equipment

Mutation

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman suggestioun, Old French suggestion (modern French suggestion), from Latin suggesti?, from suggero (“suggest”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??d???st??n/, [s??d????t??n]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /s???d???st??n/, /s??d???st??n/
• Hyphenation: sug?ges?tion

Noun

suggestion (countable and uncountable, plural suggestions)

1. (countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)

   I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.

   Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.

2. (uncountable) The act of suggesting.

   Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.

3. (countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.

   He's somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.

4. The act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested.
5. (law, countable) information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence

Synonyms

• (something suggested): hint, incitement, proposal
• See also Thesaurus:advice

Derived terms

Related terms

• suggest
• suggestive

Translations

Finnish

Noun

suggestion

1. Genitive singular form of suggestio.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin suggesti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy?.??s.tj??/

Noun

suggestion f (plural suggestions)

1. suggestion; proposal
2. suggestion (psychology, etc.)

Derived terms

• boîte à suggestions

Related terms

• suggérer

Further reading

• “suggestion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin suggesti?.

Noun

suggestion f (oblique plural suggestions, nominative singular suggestion, nominative plural suggestions)

1. suggestion; proposal

References

• suggestion on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub