Usually means: Central argument of scholarly work.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. thesis: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. thesis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. thesis: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. thesis: Collins English Dictionary
  5. thesis: Vocabulary.com
  6. Thesis, thesis: Wordnik
  7. thesis: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. thesis: Wiktionary
  9. thesis: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. thesis: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. thesis: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. thesis: Dictionary.com
  13. thesis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. thesis: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Thesis (Jimmy Giuffre 3 album), Thesis (academic document), Thesis (album), Thesis (disambiguation), Thesis (film), Thesis (typeface), Thesis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Thesis: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. thesis: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. thesis: Rhymezone
  19. thesis: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. thesis: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. thesis: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. thesis: Free Dictionary
  23. thesis: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. thesis: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. thesis: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. thesis: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  5. THESIS: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Thesis: Management Dictionary
  2. Thesis (academic), thesis: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Thesis (academic), thesis: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. THESIS: Acronym Finder
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.
noun:  (rhetoric) A proposition or statement supported by arguments.
noun:  (by extension) A lengthy essay written to establish the validity of a thesis (sense 1.1), especially one submitted in order to complete the requirements for a non-doctoral degree in the US and a doctoral degree in the UK; a dissertation.
noun:  (mathematics, computer science) A conjecture, especially one too vague to be formally stated or verified but useful as a working convention.
noun:  (logic) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
noun:  (philosophy) In the dialectical method of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel: the initial stage of reasoning where a formal statement of a point is developed; this is followed by antithesis and synthesis.
noun:  Senses relating to music and prosody.
noun:  (music, prosody, originally) The action of lowering the hand or bringing down the foot when indicating a rhythm; hence, an accented part of a measure of music or verse indicated by this action; an ictus, a stress.
noun:  (music, prosody, with a reversal of meaning) A depression of the voice when pronouncing a syllables of a word; hence, the unstressed part of the metrical foot of a verse upon which such a depression falls, or an unaccented musical note.

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