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   The·sis

   /ˈTHēsəs/

   

   noun

   • 1. a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved: "his central thesis is that psychological life is not part of the material world" Similar theorycontentionargumentline of argumentproposalpropositionpremiseassumptionpresumptionhypothesispostulationsurmisesuppositionbeliefideanotionopinionviewthemesubjecttopictextmattertheorem
   • ▪ (in Hegelian philosophy) a proposition forming the first stage in the process of dialectical reasoning.
   • 2. a long essay or dissertation involving personal research, written by a candidate for a college degree: "a doctoral thesis" Similar dissertationessaypapertreatisedisquisitioncompositionmonographstudypiece of writingtheme
   • 3. an unstressed syllable or part of a metrical foot in Greek or Latin verse.

   Word Origin late Middle English (in thesis (sense 3)): via late Latin from Greek, literally ‘placing, a proposition’, from the root of tithenai ‘to place’.

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