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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
guess/ɡes/

▶verb

1 estimate or suppose (something) without sufficient information to be sure of being correct.

2 form a correct conclusion about by guessing.

3 (I guess) informal I suppose.

▶noun an estimate or conjecture.

– derivatives
guessable adjective,
guesser noun.

– origin ME: origin uncertain; perh. from Du. gissen, and prob. rel. to get.

'guess' also found in these Oxford entries:

dark - educated guess - fan-tan - get - hazard - hunch - I spy - long shot - rough - second-guess - stochastic - surmise - unguessable - wild

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