thesis
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)theses
- an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argumentType of premise, premiss
- a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degreeSynonyms: dissertationType of treatiseKinds master's thesis, doctoral dissertation
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Translations
Noun dissertation for a degree
- Spanish
- tesis doctoral
- French
- thèse
- German
- Abschlussarbeit
- Italian
- tesi
- Portuguese
- tese
- Turkish
- tez
- Russian
- диссерта́ция dissertácija
- Arabic
- أُطْرُوحَة ʔuṭrūḥa
- Chinese
- 论文 lùnwén
- Japanese
- 論文 ronbun
19 more languages
- Dutch
- proefschrift
- Polish
- dysertacja
- Swedish
- avhandling
- Korean
- 논문 nonmun
- Indonesian
- disertasi
- Vietnamese
- luận văn
- Hungarian
- disszertáció
- Portuguese (PT)
- tese
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 論文 lùnwén
- Catalan
- tesi
- Czech
- diplomová práce
- Danish
- afhandling
- Finnish
- väitöskirja
- Georgian
- დისერტაცია diserṭacia
- Hebrew
- תֶּזָה téza
- Latvian
- disertācija
- Norwegian
- avhandling
- Romanian
- teză
- Serbo-Croatian
- teza
Noun proposition or statement supported by arguments
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L., fr. Gr. …, fr. … to place, set. See Do, and cf. Anathema, Apothecary, Epithet, Hypothesis, Parenthesis, Theme, Tick a cover.
1. A position or proposition which a person advances and offers to maintain, or which is actually maintained by argument.
2. Hence, an essay or dissertation written upon specific or definite theme; especially, an essay presented by a candidate for a diploma or degree.
I told them of the grave, becoming, and sublime deportment they should assume upon this mystical occasion, and read them two homilies and a thesis of my own composing, to prepare them.— Oliver Goldsmith
3. Logic An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
4. Music The accented part of the measure, expressed by the downward beat; — the opposite of arsis.
5. Prosody (a) The depression of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word. (b) The part of the foot upon which such a depression falls.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54