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thesis
[ thee-sis ]
noun
- a proposition stated or put forward for consideration, especially one to be discussed and proved or to be maintained against objections:
He vigorously defended his thesis on the causes of war.
Synonyms: , ,
- a subject for a composition or essay.
- a dissertation on a particular subject in which one has done original research, as one presented by a candidate for a diploma or degree.
- Music. the downward stroke in conducting; downbeat. Compare arsis ( def 1 ).
- Prosody.
- a part of a metrical foot that does not bear the ictus or stress.
- (less commonly) the part of a metrical foot that bears the ictus. Compare arsis ( def 2 ).
- Philosophy. Hegelian dialectic
thesis
/ ˈθːɪ /
noun
- a dissertation resulting from original research, esp when submitted by a candidate for a degree or diploma
- a doctrine maintained or promoted in argument
- a subject for a discussion or essay
- an unproved statement, esp one put forward as a premise in an argument
- music the downbeat of a bar, as indicated in conducting
- (in classical prosody) the syllable or part of a metrical foot not receiving the ictus Compare arsis
- philosophy the first stage in the Hegelian dialectic, that is challenged by the antithesis
thesis
- The central idea in a piece of writing, sometimes contained in a topic sentence .
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of thesis1
Example Sentences
In January 2024, his doctoral thesis on the geopolitics of African relations with the US, China and Russia was validated at the University of Johannesburg.
Unlike most of Daum’s books, “The Catastrophe Hour” wasn’t conceived as a unitary volume and doesn’t offer a single thesis.
Those ideas all came from a simple thesis: that capitalism is amoral and will gobble up anything it’s allowed to gobble up.
Think of, say, Animal Kingdom and its emphasis on conservation, Epcot and its original, albeit disappearing thesis, of a global and science-led future, or even Disneyland and its romanticized vision of American myths.
But since she’s writing her senior thesis on Buddhism, or so she says, the Ratliffs decide to make “a road trip” of it, as Timothy tells hotel staff that neither asked nor cares.
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Is The Plural Of Thesis?
Plural word for thesis
The plural form of thesis is theses, pronounced [ thee-seez ]. The plurals of several other singular words that end in -is are also formed in this way, including hypothesis/hypotheses, crisis/crises, and axis/axes. A similar change is made when pluralizing appendix as appendices.
that are formed like theses derive directly from their original pluralization in Latin and Greek.
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