# suppose

Pronunciation: say "suh-POHZ" US /səˈpoʊz/, UK /səˈpəʊz/

## Verb

1. To believe, as your own guess, that a fact or situation is probably so, though you are not sure of it.
   - Simple: To think something is probably true, even though you do not know for sure.
   - _Most people suppose that the meeting will be canceled._
   - _He is honest enough, I suppose._
2. To put forward something as a theory or hypothesis for the sake of reasoning about it.
   - Simple: To treat an idea as true for the sake of thinking about what would follow from it.
   - _To test the model, suppose the town's population doubles every ten years, and then work out how many schools it will need._
   - _Suppose two trains leave the station at exactly the same time._
3. Of an idea, claim, or situation: to depend on something else already being true, so that it could not hold or exist without it.
   - Simple: To require something else to exist or be true.
   - _An effect supposes a cause that brought it about._
   - _Such conclusions suppose premises that no one has actually proven._

## Verb

4. To reckon or regard someone or something as being a particular thing. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To count or judge someone or something to be of a certain kind or worth.
5. To fraudulently substitute one person or thing in the place of another. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To replace someone or something with another person or thing in order to deceive.

## Origin

Old French supposer, built from the prefix sub- ('under') and poser ('to place'), was borrowed into Middle English as supposen. In meaning it matches Latin supponere ('to put under, to substitute, falsify, counterfeit').

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