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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
notion/ˈnəʊʃn/
▶noun
- 1 a concept or belief.
■ a vague awareness or understanding.
- 2 an impulse or desire.
- 3 (notions) chiefly N. Amer. items used in sewing, such as buttons and pins.
– origin ME: from L. notio(n-) ‘idea’, from notus ‘known’, past part. of noscere.
'notion' also found in these Oxford entries:
Adam's apple
- aesthetic
- belie
- butterfly effect
- cadence
- conceit
- crotchet
- debase
- duck
- fantasy
- foggy
- influenza
- kid
- log
- mbaqanga
- Methodist
- minute
- morgen
- notice
- Parkinson's law
- postmodernism
- pulsatilla
- reckon
- ropeable
- stake
- strip
- stripling
- tabloid
- toast
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BBC notion of phallus, plural
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Notion
notion of predicating police success on the public's feeling
notion, idea, concept, conception
stoke the notion
term/notion/concept
the notion of
we won't just blow away if one of us takes a notion
We're all so taken with the notion of gender differences
who put forward the notion
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