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See also:opinión

English

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Etymology

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FromEnglishopine +‎-ion, fromMiddle Englishopinion,opinioun, fromAnglo-Norman andMiddle Frenchopinion, fromLatinopīniō, fromopīnor(“to opine”). Displaced nativeOld Englishwēna.

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /əˈpɪnjən/
Audio(US): (file)
Hyphenation:opin‧ion
Rhymes:-ɪnjən

Noun

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opinion (countable anduncountable,pluralopinions)

A belief, judgment or perspective that aperson has formed, either throughobjective orsubjective reasoning, about atopic,issue, person or thing.
Synonyms:piece,sentiment,verdict
I would like to know youropinions on the new filing system.
In myopinion, white chocolate is better than milk chocolate.
Every man is a fool in some man'sopinion.
We invite you to state youropinions about the suggestions.
- 1891,Oscar Wilde,The Critic as Artist:
  Truth, in matters of religion, is simply theopinion that has survived.
The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things;estimation.
- c.1606 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene vii],page135, column 1, line32:
  I haue bought / GoldenOpinions from all ſorts of people,[…]
- 1692–1717,Robert South,Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume(please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
  Friendship[…] gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the goodopinion of his friend.
(obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
- c.1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare],The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] forAndrew Wise, […], published1598,→OCLC, [Act V, scene iv],signature K2, verso:
  Thou haſt redeemed thy loſtopinion,[…]
- 1670,John Milton, “The Second Book”, inThe History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] ,→OCLC,page70:
  This gain’dAgricola muchopinion; who[…] had made ſuch early progreſs into laborious[…] enterpriſes.
(obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
- c.1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e.,William Shakespeare],A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] forCut[h]bert Burby, published1598,→OCLC; republished asShakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles;no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […],[1880],→OCLC,[Act V, scene i], lines3–6:
  […] your reaſons at Dinner haue been ſharpe & ſententious: pleaſant without ſcurillitie, wittie without affection, audatious without impudencie, learned withoutopinion, and ſtrange without hereſie:[…]
The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
(European Union law) Ajudicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible.

thought a person has formed about a topic

Albanian:mendim (sq) m
Arabic:رَأْي m(raʔy),نَظَر (ar) m(naẓar),فِكْر (ar) m(fikr),عَقِيدَة (ar) f(ʕaqīda)
Hijazi Arabic:رَإِي m(raʔi)
Armenian:կարծիք (hy)(karcikʻ)
Assamese:please add this translation if you can
Asturian:opinión (ast) f
Azerbaijani:fikir (az),rəy (az),nəzər (az)
Bashkir:фекер(feker),уй(uy)
Basque:iritzi
Belarusian:зда́нне n(zdánnje),зда́ньне n(zdánʹnje),ду́мка (be) f(dúmka),пагля́д m(pahljád),по́гляд m(póhljad),меркава́нне n(mjerkavánnje),меркава́ньне n(mjerkavánʹnje)
Bengali:অভিমতি (bn)(obhimoti),নজর (bn)(nojor)
Bulgarian:мне́ние (bg) n(mnénie),въ́зглед (bg) m(vǎ́zgled),схва́щане (bg) n(shváštane)
Burmese:ဆန္ဒ (my)(hcanda.),အထင် (my)(a.htang)
Buryat:һанал(hanal)
Catalan:opinió (ca) f,parer (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese:意見 /意见(ji³ gin³),睇法(tai² faat³)
Dungan:йиҗян(yiži͡an)
Hokkien:意見 /意见 (zh-min-nan)(ì-kiàn)
Mandarin:意見 /意见 (zh)(yìjiàn),看法 (zh)(kànfǎ),見解 /见解 (zh)(jiànjiě)
Czech:názor (cs) m,posudek (cs) m,mínění (cs) n
Danish:mening c
Dutch:mening (nl) f,opinie (nl) f,visie (nl) f,zienswijze (nl) f,gedachte (nl) f
Esperanto:opinio
Estonian:arvamus (et)
Finnish:mielipide (fi),näkemys (fi),mieli (fi)
French:avis (fr) m,opinion (fr) f
Friulian:parè
Galician:opinión (gl) f
Georgian:აზრი (ka)(azri),მოსაზრება(mosazreba),შეხედულება(šexeduleba)
German:Meinung (de) f,Ansicht (de) f,Anschauung (de) f
Gothic:𐌼𐌹𐍄𐍉𐌽𐍃 f(mitōns)
Greek:γνώμη (el) f(gnómi),άποψη (el) f(ápopsi)
Ancient:γνώμη f(gnṓmē)
Gujarati:અભિપ્રાય(abhiprāya)
Hebrew:דֵעָה (he) f(de'á)
Hindi:विचार (hi) m(vicār),राय (hi) f(rāy),ख़याल m(xayāl),अभिमत (hi)(abhimat),नज़र m(nazar)
Hungarian:vélemény (hu),nézet (hu),szakvélemény (hu)
Icelandic:álit
Ido:opiniono (io)
Indonesian:opini (id),pendapat (id)
Irish:tuairim (ga),meas m,barúil (ga) f
Italian:opinione (it) f,concetto (it) m,parere (it),giudizio (it) m
Japanese:意見 (ja)(いけん, iken),見解 (ja)(けんかい, kenkai),オピニオン(opinion)
Kannada:ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯ (kn)(abhiprāya)
Kazakh:пікір(pıkır),ой (kk)(oi)
Khalaj:aqîdə
Khmer:យោបល់ (km)(yoobɑl),មតិ (km)(mĕəʼteʼ),គំនិត (km)(kumnɨt)
Korean:의견(意見) (ko)(uigyeon),견해(見解) (ko)(gyeonhae)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish:nêrîn (ku),ray (ku),boçûn (ku)
Kyrgyz:пикир (ky)(pikir),ой (ky)(oy)
Lao:ຄວາມເຫັນ(khuām hen),ທັດສະນະ(that sa na),ສຽງ (lo)(sīang)
Latgalian:redzīņs m
Latin:ōpīniō f,sententia f,iudicium (la) n
Latvian:doma f,viedoklis m
Ligurian:òpinión
Lithuanian:nuomonė (lt) f
Luxembourgish:Meenung (lb) f,Avis (lb) m,Usiicht f
Macedonian:мислење n(mislenje),мнение n(mnenie),суд (mk) m(sud)
Malay:pendapat (ms)
Malayalam:അഭിപ്രായം (ml)(abhiprāyaṁ)
Maltese:fehma f,opinjoni f
Mingrelian:არზი(arzi)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic:санал (mn)(sanal)
Norwegian:
Bokmål:mening (no) m or f,synspunkt (no) n
Occitan:opinion (oc) f
Old English:wēna m
Ottoman Turkish:بیلك(bilek),آرا(ara)
Pannonian Rusyn:думанє n(dumanje),дума f(duma)(less common),мниниє n(mninije)(obsolete)
Pashto:اند (ps) m(and),نظر (ps) m(nazar),عقيده (ps) f('aqida)
Persian:
Dari:نَظَر(nazar),عَقِیدَه(aqīda),رَأْی(ra'y),فِکْر(fikr)
Iranian Persian:نَظَر(nazar),عَقیدِه(aġide),رَأْی(ra'y),فِکْر(fekr)
Polish:opinia (pl) f,zdanie (pl) n,pogląd (pl) m
Portuguese:opinião (pt) f
Punjabi:please add this translation if you can
Romanian:părere (ro) f,opinie (ro) f
Russian:мне́ние (ru) n(mnénije),взгляд (ru) m(vzgljad),воззре́ние (ru) n(vozzrénije)
Scottish Gaelic:barail f,beachd m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic:ми̏шље̄ње n,мне́ње n,на́зор m
Roman:mȉšljēnje (sh) n,mnénje n,názor (sh) m
Slovak:názor (sk) m
Slovene:mnenje n
Spanish:opinión (es) f,parecer (es) m,juicio (es) m,apreciación (es) f,concepto (es) m,consideración (es) f,sentencia (es) f
Swahili:maoni (sw)
Swedish:mening (sv) c,uppfattning (sv) c,omdöme (sv) n,tycke (sv) n,åsikt (sv) c
Tagalog:opinyon (tl)
Tajik:фикр (tg)(fikr),мулоҳиза(mulohiza),андеша(andeša),назар (tg)(nazar),ақида(aqida),рой(roy),раъй(ra'y)
Tamil:கருத்து (ta)(karuttu)
Tatar:фикер (tt)(fiker),уй (tt)(uy)
Telugu:అభిప్రయము(abhiprayamu)
Thai:ความเห็น (th)(kwaam-hěn),เสียง (th)(sǐiang)
Tibetan:བསམ་ཚུལ(bsam tshul)
Tok Pisin:tingting
Turkish:görüş (tr),fikir (tr)
Turkmen:pikir
Ukrainian:ду́мка (uk) f(dúmka),по́гляд (uk) m(póhljad),здання́ n(zdannjá)
Urdu:رائے f(rāe),خَیال m(xayāl),نَظَر (ur) m(nazar),عَقِیدَہ m('aqīda),فِکْر f(fikr)
Uyghur:پىكىر(pikir),ئوي(oy)
Uzbek:fikr (uz),mulohaza (uz),nazar (uz),oʻy (uz)
Vietnamese:ý kiến (vi) (意見),kiến giải (vi) (見解),ý (vi) (意)
Volapük:kredül (vo)
Welsh:barn (cy)
Woiwurrung:^{(pleaseverify)}moonang-narruki
Yiddish:מיינונג f(meynung)
Zazaki:fıkır m,asatış c

EU: a judicial opinion by an Advocate General delivered to the European Court of Justice

Verb

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opinion (third-person singular simple presentopinions,present participleopinioning,simple past and past participleopinioned)

(transitive, archaic) To have or express as an opinion.
- 1642,Tho[mas] Browne, “The First Part”, inReligio Medici. […], 4th edition, London: […] E. Cotes for Andrew Crook […], published1656,→OCLC,page97:
  Philoſophers thatopinioned the vvorlds deſtruction by fire, did never dreame of annihilation, vvhich is beyond the povver of ſublunary cauſes; for the laſt and proper action of that element[fire] is but vitrification, or a reduction of a body into Glaſſe, and therefore ſome of our Chymicks factiouſly affirme; yea, and urge Scripture for it, that at the laſt fire all ſhall be cryſtallized and reverberated into Glaſſe, vvhich is the utmoſt action of that element.
- 1658,Thomas Browne, “(please specify the page)”, inHydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […],→OCLC:
  But if (as someopinion) KingAhasuerus wereArtaxerxes Mnemon […], our magnifiedCyrus was his second Brother[…]

Translations

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opine—seeopine

References

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“opinion”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
opinion inKeywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “opinion”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.