debate
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
debate/dɪˈbeɪt/
▶noun a formal discussion in a public meeting or legislative assembly.
■ an ongoing exchange of views about a subject.
▶verb discuss or argue about.■ consider before reaching a decision.
– phrases
under debate being discussed or disputed.
under debate being discussed or disputed.
– derivatives
debater noun.
debater noun.
– origin ME: via OFr. from L. dis- (expressing reversal) + battere ‘to fight’.
'debate' also found in these Oxford entries:
black and white
- case
- clinch
- closure
- composite
- controversy
- cut
- devil's advocate
- dialectic
- dialectician
- discourse
- discussion
- disputable
- disputation
- dissertation
- distance
- eristic
- farce
- front line
- guillotine
- inspired
- introduce
- issue
- moderate
- moderator
- moot
- parlance
- point of order
- polemic
- reading
- recognize
- riot
- scale
- second reading
- stage
- steamroller
- subject matter
- talkathon
- talkfest
- temperature
- third reading
