Definition of Suppose

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Suppose

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?

To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.

To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature; as, purpose supposes foresight.

To put by fraud in the place of another.

To make supposition; to think; to be of opinion.

Supposition.

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Suppose Quotations

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

Reader, 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.
Mohandas Gandhi

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
Andy Warhol

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
Robert Frost

Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde

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

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?
Billy Graham

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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