Propound

Definition: Propound

Propound

Verb

1. Put forward, as of an idea.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "propound" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1415. (references)

Note: Propound \Pro*pound"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Propounded; present participle verb or noun Propounding.]. (references)

Affirmation

Put forth, put forward; advance, allege, propose, propound, enunciate, broach, set forth, hold out, maintain, contend, pronounce, pretend.

Inquiry

Question, demand; put the question, pop the question, propose the question, propound the question, moot the question, start the question, raise the question, stir the question, suggest the question, put forth the question, ventilate the question, grapple with the question, go into a question.

Supposition

Put forth; propound, propose; start, put a case, submit, move, make a motion; hazard out, throw out a suggestion, put forward a suggestion, put forward conjecture.

Crosswords: Propound

Expressions using "propound": propound the question ♦ to propound. Additional references.

Albanian

parashtroj (bring, commit, enunciate, expound, pose, posit, prefer, put forward, submit), paraqes (acquaint, bring in, bring up, delineate, demonstrate, denote, develop, display, feature, front, induct, introduce, introduce oneself, obtrude, offer, portray, prefer, present, press, produce, put, put in, recommend, render, represent, serve, show, stand for, submit), shtroj (board, civilize, dine, floor, lay, macadamize, pacify, spread, strew), ngre (boost, build up, carve, cast up, chant, elevate, erect, establish, heft, heighten, hike, hitch, hoist, hold up, jerk up, kilt, lift, lift up, look up, move up, peak, pick up, raise, rear, rebel, revolt, ring up, rout, run up, scoop up, set up, situate, soar, Square, straighten, take off, throw up, trice, up, upheave, uplift, upraise, wake up, weigh, wind up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏عرض (array, bid, breadth, broaden, demo, display, evince, exhibit, expose, exposition, exposure, feature, hang, hang out, hold out, imply, indication, introduction, lineup, mount, offer, offering, overture, pageant, parade, predispose, present, presentation, presenting, produce, proffer, recital, retrace, review, set, set out, setting, show, state, statement, subject, submit, surrey, symptom, trot out, widen, width). (various references)

Bulgarian 

предлагам за разглеждане (propone, put through), поставям на разискване, излагам (bring on reproach, display, enunciate, exhibit, expose, expound, formulate, hang, lay, lay out, put forward, put to, recount, represent to smb., set out, set up, show, show off, sink, state, subject, ventilate), излизам (add up, blow up, come, come away, come off, come out, emerge, exit, get out, get out of, go about, go out, issue, jump, pan out, prove, pull out, rise, run off, sally, set up, shoot out, step off, turn out, walk out, work out). (various references)

Chinese 

提议 (Offer, Propose, Proposed, Proposing, Proposition, Propounded, Propounding, submission). (various references)

Czech

předložit (bring forward, bring in, commit, dish up, introduce, pose, prefer, produce, put, put forward, put in, render, send in, set, submit, tender). (various references)

French

proposer (propose), exposer (present, produce). (various references)

German

vorlegen (hand in, introduce, lay before, lay the ball on, present, produce, put across, put down, put in front, serve, show, submit, table). (various references)

Greek 

προβάλλω (adduce, allege, come into sight, come up, peer, project, put up, show off), προτείνω (move, name to, nominate, offer, prefer, proffer, propose, put in, recommend, suggest). (various references)

Hungarian

javasol (propose, recommend, suggest, to advocate, to counsel, to motion, to name, to nominate, to put forward, to submit, to suggest), felvet (to bring on, to broach, to moot, to raise, to suggest, to take one's bearings), felad (abandon, abdicate, cede, give in, give out, give up, mail, pass up, renounce, to abandon, to abdicate, to cede, to chuck up, to despatch, to get off, to give up, to relinquish, to renounce, to resign, to surrender, to throw up, waive). (various references)

Italian

proporre (advance, decide, move, offer, pop, propose, raise, suggest). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

説教 (preach, sermon). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せっきょう (lecture on the sutras, preach, sermon, stone bridge). (various references)

Manx

cur er ard. (various references)

Pig Latin

opoundpray.(various references)

Portuguese

propor (come up with, offer, propone, propose, purpose, put, slate, tender), expor (account, carry forth, converse, create, demonstrate, disclose, enunciate, exhibit, explicate, expose, expound, feature, imperil, lay open, produce, propone, put, report, represent, set up, show, speak, spread, spread out, state, subject, turn up), apresentar (announce, bring forward, bring out, bring up, come up with, demonstrate, exhibit, give, herald, introduce, lodge, perform, preface, prefer, present, produce, proffer, propone, put, put on the stage, render, represent, serve, show, tender, to present, turn in, wear). (various references)

Romanian

propune (advance, bring in, motion, move, offer, propose, put up for, suggest, tender, vote), supune spre confirmare, supune (bend, bring under, crush, defeat, examine, keep under, overpower, present, propose, reflect, subdue, subjugate, vanquish, win), expune (air, carry forth, demonstrate, discourse, display, endanger, enounce, exhibit, explain, explicate, expose, expound, lay out, relate, show, sport, spread, state, unfold, weather, word). (various references)

Russian 

выдвигать (advance, bring forth, bring forward, interpose, move out, promote, put forward, set forward). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

predložiti (present with, propose, suggest, write up). (various references)

Spanish

proponer (advance, bring forward, come through with, come up with, let out, offer, posit, proffer, propose, put forth, put forward, put up, suggest, tender), plantear (pose, present, propose, put, set). (various references)

Swedish

föreslå (move, nominate, propose, put forward, suggest). (various references)

Turkish

teklif etmek (hold forth, move, offer, proffer, propose, proposition, suggest, tender), ortaya koymak (execute, exhibit, introduce, present, produce, prove, put forth, set forth), onaya sunmak, ileri sürmek (adduce, advance, affirm, allege, assert, bring about, broach, come up with, contend, drive on, enunciate, hold forth, interpose, lay, prefer, present, press home, pronounce, propose, publish, put forth, put forward, set forward, set up, throw out, urge, weigh in with), arzetmek (Lodge, offer, prefer, present, put up, submit, tender), önermek (commit, proffer, propose, recommend, slate, submit, suggest, vote). (various references)

Ukrainian

пропонувати на обговорення. (various references)

proponere. (various references)

proponen. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "propound": propounded, propounder, propounders, propounding, propounds. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Propound" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Oropou, prodound, propond. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: uropod.

-3 letters: donor, droop, odour, porno, pound, proud, rondo, round.

-4 letters: door, dorp, dour, drop, durn, duro, nurd, odor, ordo, pond, pood, poon, poop, poor, porn, pour, prod, prop, rood, roup, undo, updo, upon.

-5 letters: don, dor, dun, duo, dup, nod, noo, nor, oud, our, pod, pop, pro, pud, pun, pup, pur, rod, run.

+1 letter: propounds.

+2 letters: propounded, propounder.

+3 letters: outdropping, propounders, propounding.

+5 letters: preproduction.