debate

Meaning

Verb

1. (ambitransitive, reciprocal) To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.
2. (intransitive, obsolete, reciprocal) To fight.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To engage in combat for; to strive for.
4. (transitive) To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.
2. (countable, uncountable) An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.
3. (uncountable) Discussion of opposing views.
4. (countable, uncountable) A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation, commonly found in the vernacular medieval poetry of many European countries, as well as in medieval Latin.
5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Strife, discord.

Synonyms

discussion

argue

discuss

dispute

argument

controversy

quarrel

disputation

deliberate

conversation

contend

talk

🗣️

moot

contention

polemics

conference

talk about

consider

converse

wrangle

contest

controvert

fence

turn over

deliberation

reason

plead

argumentation

public debate

squabble

consult

arguing

altercate

discourse

confer

vex

strife

cogitate

polemic

agitate

contestation

plea

chat

challenge

consideration

connive

confer with

canvass

call into question

dialectic

Translations

débat

Debatte

débattre

debate

dibattito

discussion

debatir

debate

debat

debattieren

Diskussion

dibattere

tartışma

discuter

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪˈbeɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: debaten

In summary

From Middle English debaten, from Old French debatre (“to fight, contend, debate, also literally to beat down”), from Romanic desbattere, from Latin dis- (“apart, in different directions”) + battuō (“to beat, to fence”).

Sentences

Debate may also end if no senator wishes to make any further remarks .