question

Meanings

Noun

• A sentence, phrase or word which asks for information, reply or response; an interrogative.
• A subject or topic for consideration or investigation.
• A doubt or challenge about the truth, accuracy or validity of a matter.
• A proposal to a meeting as a topic for deliberation.
• Interrogation by torture.
• Talk; conversation; speech.

Verb

• To ask questions of; to interrogate; to ask for information.
• To raise doubt about; have doubts about.
• To ask a question or questions; inquire or seek to know; examine.
• To argue; to converse; to dispute.

Related

Similar words

• inquiry, enquiry, query, interrogation
• subject, topic, problem, consideration, proposition
• issue, doubt
• proposal
• frain, quaeritate

Origin

• From Middle English question, questioun, questiun, from Anglo-Norman questiun, from Old French question, from Latin quaestiōnem, accusative of quaestiō, from quaerere. Displaced native . Compare also Middle Low German quēstie, Middle High German questje.