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Definitions: Opinion |
OpinionNoun1. A personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty; "my opinion differs from yours"; "what are your thoughts on Haiti?". 2. A belief or sentiment shared by most people; the voice of the people; "he asked for a poll of public opinion". 3. A message expressing a belief about something; "his opinions appeared frequently on the editorial page". 4. The legal document stating the reasons for a judicial decision; "opinions are usually written by a single judge". 5. The reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself). 6. A vague idea in which some confidence is placed; "his impression of her was favorable"; "what are your feelings about the crisis?"; "it strengthened my belief in his sincerity"; "I had a feeling that she was lying". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "opinion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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19th Century Satire | The prodigal son of Thought. PUBLIC OPINION The world's champion pugilist, who has knocked out Law in many a hard fought bout. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Law | A judge's written explanation of a decision of the court or of a majority of judges. A dissenting opinion disagrees with the majority opinion because of the reasoning and/or the principles of law on which the decision is based. A concurring opinion agrees with the decision of the court but offers further comment. (references) |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Idea, Opinion. "Many persons think that the interior of the earth is a mass of fire; what is your idea?" Say, "What is your opinion?" Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Synonyms: OpinionSynonyms: belief (n), feeling (n), impression (n), judgement (n), judgment (n), notion (n), persuasion (n), popular opinion (n), public opinion (n), ruling (n), sentiment (n), thought (n), view (n), vox populi (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Belief | Persuasion, conviction, convincement, plerophory, self-conviction; certainty; opinion, mind, view; conception, thinking; impression; (idea); surmise; conclusion; (judgment). |
Government | Issue; opinion, stand, position; program, platform; party line. |
Judgment | Plebiscite, voice, casting vote; vote; (choice); opinion; (belief); good judgment; (wisdom). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Well, I can respect your opinion, Sadly I'm not good at rejection, I'm afraid you'll have to die! (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) In my humble opinion, this is ridiculous. (Seven Years in Tibet; writing credit: Becky Johnston) Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man. (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) If anyone was to ask for my opinion, which I note they're not, I'd say we were taking the long way around. (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Sir, If I may venture an opinion (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: George Lucas; Leigh Brackett) | |
Lyrics | Don't be offended this is all my opinion (Video; performing artist: India.Arie) As a matter of opinion I think he's tops ("My Guy"; performing artist: Mary Wells) My opinion is he's the cream of the crop ("My Guy"; performing artist: Mary Wells) In my opinion you're (Hammond Song; performing artist: The Roches) | |
Clever | It is difference of opinion that makes horse races. (references; author: Mark Twain) Refusing to have an opinion is a way of having one. (references; author: unknown) I am the world's greatest authority on my own opinion. (references; author: unknown) A man convinced against his will is still of the same opinion. (references; author: unknown) If I want your opinion, I'll ask you to fill out the necessary forms. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Public Opinion (1935) Expert's Opinion (1935) Counsel's Opinion (1933) Public Opinion (1916) In My Opinion (2002) | |
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 | Percy Poorfish writes: if you value my opinion you will never smoke CAMEL cigarettes. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Of course you know my opinion of you. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Woodrow Wilson pondering clubs labeled "compromise," "demagoguery (stuffed)," "public opinion," "politics," and "coercion" while Old Hickory looks on from a portrait. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | I can't understand it -- we're getting 100% "no opinion" from Boston, Chicago, Detroit and Minnesota!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | How "The Southern Commissioner" tried to mould [sic] public opinion in England. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Two cartoons: one showing clerk saying, "I am very sorry, but my orders are ...", and tourist saying, "Yesh, yesh, I know all about your orders; but how voz it dot you knowed i wozn't a Ghristian?" ; the other An Oirish opinion, showing Irish woman saying. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Exhibit panel depicting public opinion and education through mass media, before 1945 and after 1945, in Japan] / U.S. Army photograph. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | London opinion "Your country needs you" / Alfred Leete. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Pointing to the Presidency : a journal of political opinion published by The New Democratic Coalition of New York, 1972. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | We asked four leading crooks for their opinion on gun control. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Abraham Lincoln | Public opinion in this country is everything. |
Author Unknown | Be it ever so humble, there's no opinion like one's own. |
Carl Sandburg | A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. |
Ivan Turgenev | I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own. |
Jane Austen | Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. |
Lord Palmerston | What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another. |
Samuel Butler | He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. |
Thomas Carlyle | Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. |
Voltaire | It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion. |
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John Locke | 1690 | When a king has dethroned himself, and put himself in a state of war with his people, what shall hinder them from prosecuting him who is no king, as they would any other man, who has put himself into a state of war with them, Barclay, and those of his opinion, would do well to tell us. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 1: The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment. (reference) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | The oath of office, too, imposed by the legislature, is completely demonstrative of the legislative opinion on this subject. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In case of any difference of opinion, the League of Nations will be called on to decide. (reference) |
United Nations | 1948 | Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. (reference) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | They are premised on different facts and different local conditions, but a common legal question justifies their consideration together in this consolidated opinion [347 U.S. 483, 487]. (reference) |
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The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | And that hasn't much improved my opinion of them. |
Emma | Austen, Jane | |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Scrooge resumed his labours with an improved opinion of himself, and in a more facetious temper than was usual with him. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | With all this difference of opinion as to the cause of his decline, there could be no question of the fact. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | I have just told you my opinion of Athens. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | And when the matter was debated in council, the wisest part of the ministry were of my opinion. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Ask for and value the opinion of the person with aphasia, especially regarding family matters. (references) | |
Before undergoing any expensive diagnostic test, it is always wise to get another independent opinion. (references) | ||
Women with a family history of breast cancer might also want to get the opinion of their cancer doctor. (references) | ||
Business | A "Vergabepruefstelle" opinion is in no way a prerequisite for starting a formal process of appeal. (references) | |
Banks are leaders and opinion makers in a major effort to secure data integrity and secure payments. (references) | ||
Increasingly, consumers are of the opinion that one duvet for the entire year is no longer sufficient. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Egypt | The opinion had not been issued by year's end. (references) |
South Africa | Coverage of news and expression of opinion is vigorous. (references) | |
Equatorial Guinea | Nze Nzongo cited Ndong's mismanagement of La Opinion as his reason. (references) | |
Discrimination | United Kingdom | In Northern Ireland the Fair Employment Act specifically banned employment discrimination on the grounds of religious or political opinion. (references) |
France | Statutes ban discrimination based on race, religion, sex, ethnic background, or political opinion, and in general the Government effectively enforces them. (references) | |
Malta | The Constitution and law prohibit discrimination based on race, place of origin, political opinion, color, creed, or sex, and the Government generally respects this prohibition. (references) | |
Economic History | Ukraine | In our opinion, industry sales appear to be closer to +ACQ-30 million. (references) |
Honduras | If the opinion is favorable, the investment is to be registered immediately. (references) | |
Saudi Arabia | This opinion is reinforced among the local end-users and healthcare professionals. (references) | |
Human Rights | Philippines | Its advisory opinion cited inhuman conditions in jails and prisons in many parts of the country. (references) |
Cuba | The Interior Ministry employed an intricate system of informants and block committees (the CDR's) to monitor and control public opinion. (references) | |
Malaysia | Suspects may be held without charge for successive 2-year intervals with periodic review by an advisory board, whose opinion is binding on the Home Minister. (references) | |
Minorities | Czech Republic | Roma also were subject to popular prejudice, as is confirmed repeatedly by public opinion polls. (references) |
Slovak Republic | A poll published in January that surveyed 1,046 persons concluded that public opinion towards Roma appeared to be more tolerant. (references) | |
Ghana | Government officials, M.P.'s, and other prominent opinion leaders regularly call for peaceful coexistence between ethnic groups. (references) | |
Political Economy | Ukraine | Nevertheless a wide range of opinion is available in newspapers and periodicals. (references) |
Uk | Wide differences of opinion on joining the Euro prevail within the parties and the public at large. (references) | |
Western Sahara | In 1975 the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion on the status of the Western Sahara. (references) | |
Political Rights | Uganda | During the year, the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) began soliciting the public's opinion and holding public hearings on amending the 1995 Constitution. (references) |
Kenya | Since 1996 a broad coalition of NGO's and religious organizations has mobilized public opinion in support of a reform of the Constitution to reduce the power of the presidency. (references) | |
Saudi Arabia | In theory any male citizen or foreign national may express an opinion or a grievance at a majlis, an open-door meeting held by the King, a prince, or an important national or local official. (references) | |
Trade | Bulgaria | The Minister is required to render a final opinion within five days of receipt of the appeal. (references) |
Dominican Rep | The Dominican Customs office has indicated that it will not exclude any items from the GATT valuation until the WTO issues its opinion. (references) | |
Poland | Veterinary permits for breeding livestock, semen, and embryos are not issued unless a positive opinion for the importation is received from the Central Animal Breeding Office. (references) | |
Travel | Vietnam | In building a consensus, it may prove impossible to "steamroller" the minority opinion, which must be wooed instead. (references) |
Women | Trinidad and Tobago | There has been increased media coverage of domestic abuse cases and signs of a shift in public opinion, which had held that such cases were a private matter. (references) |
Uganda | Law enforcement officials, reflecting general public opinion, continued to view wife beating as a husband's prerogative and rarely intervened in cases of domestic violence. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Unions have the right to strike, and increasingly have used that right to pressure for payment of overdue salaries or wages, protest or demand changes in management, and voice their opinion on economic reform and government policy. (references) |
Belarus | Women seldom report incidences of trafficking to police because of a generally negative public opinion about law enforcement authorities, shortcomings in legislation on the subject, and the insufficient protection of victims and witnesses. (references) | |
Cape Verde | The CFA also reported that the Government began to take measures to amend its legislation so that in the event of disagreement between the parties on the minimum services to be provided during strikes, this difference of opinion is resolved by an independent body. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ABSURDITY, n. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Ann Richards | Oh, man. You know, there are so many decision makers in this question, you would not believe it up here. And everybody has an opinion. And I suspect what will finally shake out of this will be probably a combination of all of it. |
Dan Rather | Well, I trust my president and when the president of the United States says things, I listen very carefully. That's my opinion as a citizen. That's my position as a citizen. |
Dennis Miller | Of course, that's just my wife's opinion, and she's never wrong. |
John McCain | You know, that's always interesting in the media and it's fun to speculate on that, you know, there's this differences of opinion and various different leaks and allegiances and who has the ear of the president and all that. |
Rush Limbaugh | Democrats think that public opinion overrides the law any time the law is in their way. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep live the spirit of liberty. |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | If in your opinion this important trust ought now to be executed, you can not fail while performing it to take into view the future probable situation of the territory for the happiness of which you are about to provide. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | That is due, in the first place, to the reflecting character of our citizens at large, who, by the weight of public opinion, influence and strengthen the public measures. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Equally gratifying is it to witness the increased harmony of opinion which pervades our Union. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | Some diversity of opinion has prevailed with regard to the powers of Congress for legislation upon objects of this nature. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Nothing short of a radical change in the action of the Government upon the subject can, in my opinion, remedy the evil. |
Ulysses S. Grant | 1869-1877 | This requires security of person, property, and free religious and political opinion in every part of our common country, without regard to local prejudice. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Our people trust their government, and we assure our people and world public opinion that the Soviet Government will not allow itself to be provoked. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | For the hour and the day and the time are here to achieve progress without strife, to achieve change without hatred--not without difference of opinion, but without the deep and abiding divisions which scar the union for generations. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Before any American troops were committed to Vietnam, a leader of another Asian country expressed this opinion to me when I was traveling in Asia as a private citizen. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Opinion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.91% of the time. "Opinion" is used about 7,366 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.91% | 7,359 | 1,313 |
| Noun (common) | 0.08% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7,366 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Opinion Research Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "opinion": a matter of opinion ♦ a slight variance of opinion ♦ advance one's opinion ♦ advisory opinion ♦ authoritative opinion ♦ be of opinion that ♦ be of the opinion ♦ before the tribunal of public opinion ♦ change of opinion ♦ change one's opinion ♦ cherish an opinion ♦ cling to an opinion ♦ come round to an opinion ♦ concurring opinion ♦ current opinion ♦ declare one's opinion ♦ declare one's opinion of smth. ♦ defer to smb.'s opinion ♦ deliver oneself of an opinion ♦ difference diversity of opinion ♦ difference of opinion ♦ dissenting opinion ♦ diversity of opinion ♦ expert opinion ♦ express one's opinion ♦ forfeit one's good opinion ♦ form an opinion ♦ freedom of opinion ♦ give an opinion of ♦ give one's opinion ♦ have a high opinion of ♦ have a low opinion of ♦ have an opinion on ♦ have too high an opinion of oneself ♦ horseback opinion ♦ in his opinion ♦ in my humble opinion ♦ in my opinion ♦ in my poor opinion ♦ in prevailing opinion ♦ in your opinion ♦ lay opinion ♦ legal opinion ♦ low opinion ♦ majority opinion ♦ matter of opinion ♦ mean opinion score ♦ mold public opinion ♦ mould public opinion ♦ move from an opinion ♦ of the opinion ♦ offer an opinion ♦ on my opinion ♦ opinion column ♦ opinion generally received ♦ opinion poll ♦ outside opinion ♦ pass an opinion on ♦ persist in one's opinion ♦ personal opinion ♦ popular opinion ♦ preconceived opinion ♦ prevailing opinion ♦ public opinion ♦ public opinion poll ♦ public opinion polls ♦ public opinion pool ♦ public opinion surveys ♦ recant one's opinion ♦ received opinion ♦ reversal of opinion ♦ servile to public opinion ♦ share smb.'s opinion ♦ stand well in the opinion of ♦ stick to one's opinion ♦ stick to one's own opinion ♦ tell smb. one's honest opinion ♦ the run of public opinion ♦ they lean to the same opinion ♦ To be of opinion ♦ To hold opinion with ♦ united in opinion ♦ universal opinion ♦ variance of opinion ♦ voice the general opinion. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "opinion": opinion-assisted, opinion-based, opinion-former, opinion-formers, opinion-forming, opinion-gathering, opinion-influencing, opinion-leaders, opinion-makers, opinion-making, opinion-mongers, opinion-moving, opinion-poll, opinion-polling, opinion-polls, opinion-sampling, opinion-sounding, opinion-surveys, opinion-swings. | |
Ending with "opinion": anti-opinion, controlled-opinion, public-opinion, Self-opinion. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "opinion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | visie (contention), opvatting (concept, contention, idea), opinie (contention), mening (contention). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | opinion (judgement, judgment, mind, notion, say, thinking, view, voice), tezë (dissertation, idea, thesis), pikëmaje (view, viewpoint), mendim (brainchild, cogitation, conceit, conception, estimation, idea, judgement, judgment, meditation, mind, muse, notion, reflection, reflexion, say, self-communion, sentiment, spirit, thinking, thought), konkluzion (conclusion, corollary, eduction, finding, illation, inference, peroration, resume, rider). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فكرة (conceit, concept, conception, idea, impression, motif, notion, outline, think, thought, view), وجهة نظر (angle, color, colour, dogmatism, estimation, mind, perspective, point of view, sentiment, slant, standpoint, viewpoint), حكم (administer, administration, arbiter, arbitration, ascendancy, authority, award, control, decide, decision, deliverance, determination, dispensation, doom, fasten, fastening, find, finding, govern, hand down, judge, judgement, judgment, reckon, referee, regimen, rule, ruling, run, sway, umpire, verdict), إعتقاد (faith, feeling), إعتقد أن (hold the view), رأي (consideration, deliverance, feeling, idea, judgement, judgment, mind, persuasion, saw, say, sentiment, theory, think, verdict, view). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Breton | soñj (it thinks). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | схващане (apprehension, comprehension, conception, cramp, grasp, idea, kink, notion, outlook, perception, prehension, understanding, uptake, view), убеждение (belief, conviction, persuasion, tenet), разбиране (apprehension, comprehension, conception, feeling, grasp, grip, hold, idea, knowing, perception, realization, taste, understanding, uptake), възглед (judgement, notion, outlook, view), мнение (advice, belief, comment, counsel, esteem, estimation, idea, image, mind, notion, persuasion, pronouncement, sentence, sentiment, thinking, thought, thoughts, verdict, view, voice), преценка (adjudgment, appraisal, assessment, calculation, criticism, estimate, estimation, judgement, pronouncement, sapience, sight, valuation, verdict). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 臆 (feelings, thoughts), 观点 (viewpoint, ViewPoints), 見解 (understanding, view), 看法 (view, way of looking at a thing), 意見 (view), 意思 (idea, meaning). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | posudek (review), názor (estimation, feeling, idea, notion, outlook, point of view, sentiments, theory, verdict, view, viewpoint), mínìní (estimation, judgement, judgment, mind, sentiments, thought, voice), úsudek. (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | mening (contention). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | visie (contention), opinie (contention), mening (contention, supposition), gedachte (contention, thought), dunk (contention). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | opinio. (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Faeroese | meining (contention, meaning, sense). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فکر (Concept, Idea, Mind, Notion, Thought), نظریه (Lookout, Notion, Outlook, Recommendation, Theory, View, Viewpoint), نظر (Advice, Discretion, Esteem, Look, Regard, Shim, Sight, Slant, Thought, Verdict, View, Viewpoint), گمان (Aim, Assumption, Belief, Conjecture, Doubt, Guess, Idea, Impression, Supposition, Surmise, Thought), عقیده (Advice, Belief, Concept, Credo, Creed, Doctrine, Faith, Impression, Ism, Tenet, Thought, View, Viewpoint), اندیشه (Anxiety, Idea, Mentality, Notion, Plan, Reflection, Solicitude, Thought, Worry), رای (Award, Dictum, Discretion, Judgment(Gement), Poll, Sentence, Verdict, Vote). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | mielipide (view), lausunto (report, statement). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
French | opinion, avis (opinions). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | miening (contention). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Meinung (acceptation, contention, estimation, idea, judgment, meaning, mind, notion, sentence, sentiment, view), stellungnahme (comment, declaration, statement), gutachten (advisory opinion, award, certificate, judgment, report). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γνώμη (counsel, judge, mind, notion), γνωμάτευση (pronouncement). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שיט" (doctrine, line, method, principle, system, theory), עשתות (idea, thought), חות "עת (advice, counsel, say), "ע" (estimation, insight, knowledge, mind, say, understanding, view, wisdom), סבר" (conjecture, logical argument, presumption, speculation, supposition, surmise, view). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vélemény (approbation, conceit, esteem, eye, judgement, judgment, lay opinion, mind, notion, point of view, slant, tenet, thinking, verdict), nézet (appearance, aspect, current coin, elevation, eye, judgement, judgment, look, sentiment, sight, tenet, theory, view), megítélés (adjudication, awarding, discretion, discrimination, judgement, judgment, summing up), ítélet (adjudgement, adjudgment, adjudication, deliverance, doom, judgement, judgment, sentence, verdict, visitation). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Icelandic | skoðun (contention), álit (concept, contention, idea). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | timbangan (criticism, pair of scales, rather than, weights), pendirian (building, contention, convictions, establishment, founding, stand, stand point), pendapat (judgment), pandangan (look), ijtihad (interpretation, investigation). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish | tuairim, barúil. (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | parere (appear, appear to be, look, seem, think, view), opinione (attitude, belief, contention, estimation, judgement, judgment, mind, sentiment, sight, stand, view, voice). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 知見 (diagnosis, knowledge), 主旨 (gist, idea, meaning, motive), 主意 (aim, gist, idea, main meaning, meaning, motive), 存念 (idea), オクタン価 (enthusiast, fantasy object for masturbation, geek, honor, love affair with colleague, masturbation, nerd, Occam, ocean space explorer, Oceania, octane value, octet, odometer, of course, off, off the record, offence, offense, offer, office, office automation, office computer, office girl, office lady, office wife, officer, official, official handicap, official record, off-season, offshore, offshore center, offshore fund, off-side, Ohio, Oklahoma, okra, OL, onanism, onion, onomatopoeia, onyx, opal, opinion leader, orchestra, Oscar, oscillograph, oscilloscope, Oslo, osmium, OSPER, ostracism, ostrich, ostrich policy, Othello, Ottawa, Oxford, oxtail, ozone, ozone hole, respectable person), 意見 (view), 所信 (belief, conviction), 主張 (advocacy, assertion, claim, contention, emphasis, insistence, request, tenet), 所見 (view), 趣意 (aim, gist, idea, main meaning, meaning, motive), 見識 (discernment, pride, self-respect, views), 見解 (point of view), 視点 (point of view, visual point), 識見 (discernment, insight, pride, self-respect, views), 諸説 , 高見 (excellent idea, watching with detachment), 所存 (intention, thought). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しょぞ" (intention, thought), け"かい (headstrong, obstinate, point of view, prefectural assembly, stubborn), け"しき (discernment, pride, self-respect, views), オ"ニオン , いけ" (able men left out of office, authority, different opinion, objection, power, unconstitutionality, view), して" (branch store, dead point, fulcrum, point of view, visual point), しょけ" (first sight, gentlemen, reading, seeing for the first time, various wise individuals, view, you or them), ちけ" (clinical trial, diagnosis, district Public Prosecutor's Office, knowledge), しょし" (belief, conviction, first trial, initial medical examination, initial resolution, letter, original intention), ぞ"ね" (idea), しゅし (finger, gist, idea, meaning, motive, object, pit, seed), しゅちょう (advocacy, assertion, chief, claim, contention, emphasis, head, insistence, keynote, main current, main melody, request, swelling, tenet), しゅい (aim, first place, gist, head position, idea, leading position, main meaning, meaning, motive), しっけ" (discernment, disenfranchisement, insight, loss of rights, pride, regent, self-respect, views), しきけ" (discernment, insight, pride, self-respect, the right to command, views), たかみ (elevated place, excellent idea, height), しょせつ (contents, explanation, matter under discussion, one's opinion). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 의견 (Estimation). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Malay | pendapat (contention). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | tuarym (conjecture, estimation, guess, guesswork, review, surmise, view, viewpoint), smooinaght (concept, impression, notion, sentiment, think, thought), barel (appreciation, estimation, hypothesis, presumption, review). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | oppfatning (concept, contention, idea), mening (contention). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | opinion (contention), huisio (contention). (various references) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opinionay opinia (contention). (various references) opinião (advice, apprehension, belief, concetto, doyen, expiate, eye, idea, impression, judgements, judgments, mind, say, sentiment, sight, standpoint, supposition, theory, thinking, voice), parecer (appear, appear to be, feedback, mind, notional, purport, seem, show, sight, sound). (various references) opinie (apprehension, feeling, judgement, judgment, mind, regard, sentiment, statement, thinking, view, voice), verdict (deliverance, doom, finding, sentence, verdict), punct de vedere (angle, aspect, color, colour, lookout, mind, outlook, part, point, regard, sentiment, standpoint, view point), pãrere a unui specialist, pãrere (belief, conceit, conviction, dictum, estimate, estimation, hint, idea, judgement, mind, notion, paradox, say, thinking, verdict, view, voice), convingere (belief, certitude, conviction, inducement, persuasion), concluzie (conclusion, decision, deduction, determination, end, finding, inference, laconism, upshot), apreciere (appreciation, assessment, calculation, esteem, estimate, estimation, judgment, pat on the back, reckoning, recognition, value). (various references) |
