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語源

From Old French discussion, from Late Latin discussiō, from Latin discutiō. By surface analysis, discuss +‎ -ion.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA: /dɪˈskʌʃ.ən/
• (Northern England) IPA: /dɪsˈkʊʃ.ən/
• (General Australian) IPA: /dɪˈskɐʃ.ən/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /dəˈskɐʃ.ən/
• (Indic) IPA: /ˈɖɪs.kə.ʃən/
• ハイフネーション: dis‧cus‧sion

名詞

discussion (countable and uncountable, plural discussions)

1. Conversation or debate concerning a particular topic.

   Synonym: discourse

   There was then a long discussion of whether to capitalize words like "east".

   This topic is not open to discussion.

   My discussion with the professor was very enlightening.

   • 2022 June 24, Mike Isaac and Ryan Mac, “Meta clamps down on internal discussion of Roe v. Wade’s overturning.”, in The New York Times‎:

     In the May 12 memo, Meta said it had previously allowed open discussion of abortion at work but later recognized that it had led to “significant disruptions in the workplace given unique legal complexities and the number of people affected by the issue.”

2. Text giving further detail on a subject.

   Under each heading, you will find a discussion.

   • 2014 October 14, David Malcolm, “The Great War Re-Remembered: Allohistory and Allohistorical Fiction”, in Martin Löschnigg, Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz, editors, The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film‎, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG., →ISBN, page 173:

     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).

3. (medicine, obsolete) The dispersion of a tumour.

派生語

関連する語

• discuss
• discusser (“a person who discusses”)

Further reading

• “discussion”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• discussion in Britannica Dictionary
• discussion in Macmillan Collocations Dictionary
• discussion in Sentence collocations by Cambridge Dictionary
• discussion in Ozdic collocation dictionary
• discussion in WordReference English Collocations