argument
Pronunciation: /ˈɑːɡjʊmənt/
The English word “argument” has 17 meanings listed here.
noun
- A fact or statement used to support a proposition; a reason.
- A series of propositions organized so that the final proposition is a conclusion which is intended to follow logically from the preceding propositions, which function as premises.
- A process of reasoning; argumentation.
- An abstract or summary of the content of a literary work such as a book, a poem or a major section such as a chapter, included in the work before the content itself; (figuratively) the contents themselves.
- A verbal dispute; a quarrel.
- Any dispute, altercation, or collision.
- Any of the phrases that bear a syntactic connection to the verb of a clause.
- The independent variable of a function.
- The phase of a complex number.
- A quantity on which the calculation of another quantity depends.
- A value, or a reference to a value, passed to a function.
- A parameter at a function call; an actual parameter, as opposed to a formal parameter.
- A matter in question; a business in hand.
- The subject matter of an artistic representation, discourse, or writing; a theme or topic.
- Evidence, proof; (countable) an item of such evidence or proof.
verb
Etymology
From Middle English argument, from Anglo-Norman and Old French arguement, from Latin argumentum. The English word is analysable as argue + -ment. Doublet of argumentum. Displaced native Old English racu and ġeflit.
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