Usually means: Statement asserting truth or falsehood.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. proposition: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. proposition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. proposition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. proposition: Collins English Dictionary
  5. proposition: Vocabulary.com
  6. Proposition, proposition: Wordnik
  7. proposition: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. proposition: Wiktionary
  9. proposition: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. proposition: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. proposition: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Proposition, proposition: Dictionary.com
  13. proposition: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Proposition (disambiguation), Proposition (logic), Proposition (mathematics), Proposition (politics), Proposition (value), Proposition, The Proposition (painting), The Proposition (soundtrack), The Proposition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Proposition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. proposition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. proposition: Rhymezone
  18. proposition, proposition (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. proposition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. proposition: Free Dictionary
  21. proposition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. proposition: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. proposition: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. proposition: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Proposition (logic), proposition: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. proposition: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Proposition (logic), proposition: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Proposition (logic), proposition: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. proposition: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Proposition: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. proposition, proposition, proposition: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. proposition: Anthropological Terms
  4. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. proposition: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Proposition: Backgammon

(Note: See propositional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
noun:  (countable) An idea, plan, or suggestion offered.
noun:  (informal) A suggestion of sexual intercourse (made to someone with who one is not sexually involved).
noun:  (countable, business settings) The terms of a transaction offered.
noun:  (countable, US, politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.
noun:  (grammar) A complete sentence.
noun:  (countable, logic) The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion; (Aristotelian logic) a predicate of a subject that is denied or affirmed and is connected by a copula.
noun:  (countable, mathematics) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
noun:  (countable, mathematics) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.
noun:  A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; a creed.
noun:  (poetic) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To make an offer or suggestion to (someone).
verb:  (transitive, informal) To make a suggestion of sexual intercourse to (someone with whom one is not sexually involved).
noun:  Misspelling of preposition. [(grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.]

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