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Definition of Suppose

Suppose

  1. To represent to one's self, or state to another, not as true or real, but as if so, and with a view to some consequence or application which the reality would involve or admit of; to imagine or admit to exist, for the sake of argument or illustration; to assume to be true; as, let us suppose the earth to be the center of the system, what would be the result?
  2. To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
  3. To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature; as, purpose supposes foresight.
  4. To put by fraud in the place of another.
  5. To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion.
  6. Supposition.

Suppose Quotations

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
Mahatma Gandhi

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Oscar Wilde
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Suppose Translations

suppose in Danish is antage
suppose in Dutch is menen, vermoeden, stellen
suppose in Finnish is olettaa
suppose in French is supposons, supposez, supposent, supposer
suppose in German is vorraussetzen, vermuten
suppose in Latin is reor, volo, sentio
suppose in Portuguese is suponha
suppose in Spanish is suponer, presumir

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