thesis

CEFRB1

/ˈθiːsɪs/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A long piece of writing based on research.

  2. 02

    noun

    The main idea argued in a piece of writing.

Examples

  • I'll need at least three days to translate that thesis.

  • Students must submit a thesis on an agreed subject within four years.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2

Also pronounced

  • /ˈθɛsɪs/
  • /ˈθiːsiːz/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.

  2. A proposition or statement supported by arguments.

  3. A conjecture, especially one too vague to be formally stated or verified but useful as a working convention.

More examples

In context

  • This data is for my thesis.

  • 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, in order to prepare them.

Antonyms

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

For her final degree, she wrote a long research blank that took two years to complete.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

From Late Middle English thesis (“lowering of the voice”) and also borrowed directly from its etymon Latin thesis (“proposition, thesis; lowering of the voice”), from Ancient Greek θέσῐς (thésĭs, “arrangement, placement, setting; conclusion, position, thesis; lowering of the voice”), from τῐ́θημῐ (tĭ́thēmĭ, “to place, put, set; to put down in writing; to consider as, regard”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do; to place, put”)) + -σῐς (-sĭs, suffix forming abstract nouns or nouns of action, process, or result). The English word is a doublet of deed. Sense 1.1 (“proposition or statement supported by arguments”) is adopted from antithesis. Sense 1.4 (“initial stage of reason...