suggest
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
suggest/səˈʤest/
▶verb
- 1 put forward for consideration.
■ (suggest itself) (of an idea) come into one's mind.
- 2 cause one to think that (something) exists or is the case; evoke.
■ state or express indirectly.
– derivatives
suggester noun.
suggester noun.
– origin C16 (earlier (ME) as suggestion): from L. suggest-, suggerere ‘suggest, prompt’, from sub- ‘from below’ + gerere ‘bring’.
'suggest' also found in these Oxford entries:
bell
- bit
- common law
- connote
- contraindicate
- epigraph
- frabjous
- if
- imply
- indicate
- insinuate
- link
- magnum
- not
- passion flower
- postulate
- Rorschach test
- round
- smack
- submit
- sug-
- suggestive
- volunteer
- wisdom
