opinion

opinion

See also: opinión

English

Etymology

From English opine +‎ -ion, from Middle English opinion, opinioun, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French opinion, from Latin opīniō, from opīnor (“to opine”). Displaced native Old English wēna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈpɪnjən/

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• Rhymes: -ɪnjən
• Hyphenation: opin‧ion

Noun

opinion (plural opinions)

1. A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing.

   I would like to know your opinions on the new filing system.

   In my opinion, white chocolate is better than milk chocolate.

   Every man is a fool in some man's opinion.

   We invite you to state your opinions about the suggestions.

   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist:

     Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

2. The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene vii], line 32:

     I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.

   • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, OCLC 21766567:

     Friendship […] gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.

3. (obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iv], line 47:

     Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion.

   • 1670, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , OCLC 946735472:

     This gained Agricola much opinion, who […] had made such early progress into laborious […] enterprises.

4. (obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i], line 5:

     Your reasons at / dinner have been sharp and sententious, pleasant / without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious / without impudency, learned without opinion, and / strange without heresy.

5. The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
6. (European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible

Synonyms

• take (noun)
• view

Derived terms

• opinional
• opinionate
• opinionative
• opinioned
• opinionist
• opinionless

 

Compound words

• counteropinion
• disopinion
• feelpinion
• misopinion
• postopinion
• preopinion
• self-opinion

 

Expressions with this term at the beginning

• opinion host
• opinion leader
• opinion maker
• opinionmaking
• opinion piece
• opinion poll
• opinion privilege
• opinion shopping
• opinion show

 

Expressions with preceding adjectives and attributive nouns

• adverse opinion
• advisory opinion
• clean opinion
• concurring opinion
• court opinion
• dissenting opinion
• expert opinion
• fairness opinion
• legal opinion
• memorandum opinion
• popular opinion
• public opinion
• scientific opinion
• second opinion
• slip opinion

Other expressions

• accountant's opinion
• be of the opinion
• difference of opinion
• division of opinion
• except for opinion
• in my humble opinion/IMHO
• in my opinion
• in one's opinion
• matter of opinion
• opinions are like assholes
• subject to opinion

 

Related terms

• opination
• opine
• opinionated

 

Translations

thought a person has formed about a topic

Albanian: mendim (sq) m Arabic: رَأْي‎ m (raʾy), نَظَر‎ (ar) m (naẓar), فِكْر‎ (ar) m (fikr), عَقِيدَة‎ (ar) f (ʿaqīda) Hijazi Arabic: رَإِي‎ m (raʾi) Armenian: կարծիք (hy) (karcikʿ) Assamese: please add this translation if you can Asturian: opinión (ast) f Azerbaijani: fikir (az), rəy (az), nəzər (az) Bashkir: фекер (feker), уй (uy) Basque: iritzi Belarusian: зда́нне n (zdánnje), ду́мка (be) f (dúmka), пагля́д m (pahljád), по́гляд m (póhljad) Bengali: অভিমতি (ôbhimôti), নজর (nôjôrô) Bulgarian: мне́ние (bg) n (mnénie), въ́зглед (bg) m (vǎ́zgled), схва́щане (bg) n (shváštane) Burmese: ဆန္ဒ (my) (hcanda.), အထင် (my) (a.htang) Buryat: һанал (hanal) Catalan: opinió (ca) f, parer (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 意見, 意见 (ji3 gin3), 睇法 (tai2 faat3) Dungan: йиҗян (yiži͡an) Mandarin: 意見／意见 (zh) (yìjiàn), 看法 (zh) (kànfǎ), 見解／见解 (zh) (jiànjiě) Min Nan: 意見 (zh-min-nan), 意见 (ì-kiàn) Czech: názor (cs) m, posudek (cs) m Danish: mening c Dutch: mening (nl) f, opinie (nl) f, visie (nl) f, zienswijze (nl) f, gedachte (nl) f Esperanto: opinio Estonian: arvamus (et) Finnish: mielipide (fi), näkemys (fi), mieli (fi) French: avis (fr) m, opinion (fr) f Friulian: parè Galician: opinión (gl) f Georgian: აზრი (ka) (azri), მოსაზრება (mosazreba), შეხედულება (šexeduleba) German: Meinung (de) f, Ansicht (de) f, Anschauung (de) f Gothic: 𐌼𐌹𐍄𐍉𐌽𐍃 f (mitōns) Greek: γνώμη (el) f (gnómi), άποψη (el) f (ápopsi) Ancient: γνώμη f (gnṓmē) Gujarati: please add this translation if you can Hebrew: דֵעָה‎ (he) f (de'á) Hindi: विचार (hi) m (vicār), राय (hi) f (rāy), ख़याल m (xayāl), अभिमत (hi) (abhimat), नज़र m (nazar) Hungarian: vélemény (hu), nézet (hu), szakvélemény (hu) Icelandic: álit Ido: opiniono (io) Indonesian: opini (id) pendapat (id) Irish: tuairim (ga), meas m, barúil (ga) f Italian: opinione (it) f, concetto (it) m, parere (it), giudizio (it) m Japanese: 意見 (ja) (いけん, iken), 見解 (ja) (けんかい, kenkai) Kannada: please add this translation if you can Kazakh: пікір (kk) (pıkır), ой (kk) (oi) Khmer: យោបល់ (km) (yoobɑl), មតិ (km) (mĕəʼteʼ), គំនិត (km) (kumnɨt) Korean: 의견(意見) (ko) (uigyeon), 견해(見解) (ko) (gyeonhae) Kyrgyz: пикир (ky) (pikir), ой (ky) (oy) Lao: ຄວາມເຫັນ (khuām hen), ທັດສະນະ (that sa na), ສຽງ (lo) (sīang) Latgalian: redzīņs m Latin: ōpīniō f, sententia f, iudicium (la) n Latvian: doma f Lithuanian: nuomonė (lt) f Luxembourgish: Meenung (lb) f, Avis (lb) m, Usiicht f Macedonian: мислење n (mislenje), мнение n (mnenie) Malay: pendapat (ms) Malayalam: അഭിപ്രായം (ml) (abhiprāyaṃ) Maltese: fehma f, opinjoni f Mingrelian: არზი (arzi) Mongolian: Cyrillic: санал (mn) (sanal) Norwegian: Bokmål: mening (no) m or f, synspunkt (no) n Occitan: opinion (oc) f Old English: wēna m Ottoman Turkish: بیلك‎ (bilek), آرا‎ (ara) Persian: نظر‎ (fa) (nazar), عقیده‎ (fa) (aqide), رأی‎ (fa) (ra'y), فکر‎ (fa) (fekr) Polish: opinia (pl) f, zdanie (pl) n, pogląd (pl) m Portuguese: opinião (pt) f Punjabi: please add this translation if you can Romanian: părere (ro) f, opinie (ro) f Russian: мне́ние (ru) n (mnénije), взгляд (ru) m (vzgljad), воззре́ние (ru) n (vozzrénije) Scottish Gaelic: barail f, beachd m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ми̏шље̄ње n, мне́ње n, на́зор m Roman: mȉšljēnje (sh) n, mnénje n, názor (sh) m Slovak: názor m Slovene: mnenje n Spanish: opinión (es) f, parecer (es) m, juicio (es) m, apreciación (es) f, concepto (es) m, consideración (es) f, sentencia (es) f Swahili: maoni (sw) Swedish: mening (sv) c, uppfattning (sv) c, omdöme (sv) n, tycke (sv) n, åsikt (sv) c Tagalog: opinyon (tl) Tajik: фикр (tg) (fikr), мулоҳиза (mulohiza), андеша (andeša), назар (tg) (nazar), ақида (aqida), рой (roy), раъй (raʾy) Tamil: please add this translation if you can Tatar: фикер (tt) (fiker), уй (tt) (uy) Telugu: అభిప్రయము (abhiprayamu) Thai: ความเห็น (th) (kwaam-hěn), เสียง (th) (sǐiang) Tibetan: བསམ་ཚུལ (bsam tshul) Tok Pisin: tingting Turkish: görüş (tr), fikir (tr) Turkmen: pikir Ukrainian: ду́мка (uk) f (dúmka), по́гляд (uk) m (póhljad), здання́ n (zdannjá) Urdu: رائے‎ f (rāy), خیال‎ m (xayāl), نظر‎ (ur) m (nazar) Uyghur: پىكىر‎ (pikir), ئوي‎ (oy) Uzbek: fikr (uz), mulohaza (uz), nazar (uz), oʻy (uz) Vietnamese: ý kiến (vi) (意見), kiến giải (vi), ý (vi) Volapük: kredül (vo) Welsh: barn (cy) Yiddish: מיינונג‎ f (meynung) Zazaki: fıkır m, asatış c

EU: a judicial opinion by an Advocate General delivered to the European Court of Justice

Bulgarian: заключе́ние (bg) n (zaključénie) Czech: stanovisko (cs) n Dutch: conclusie (nl) f Estonian: ettepanek Finnish: ratkaisuehdotus (fi) French: conclusions (fr) f pl German: Schlussanträge pl Greek: προτάσεισ f (protáseis) Italian: conclusioni (it) f pl Norwegian: Bokmål: uttalelse m Portuguese: conclusão (pt) f Russian: заключе́ние (ru) n (zaključénije) Slovak: návrhy m pl Spanish: conclusiones (es) f pl

See also

• fact

Verb

opinion (third-person singular simple present opinions, present participle opinioning, simple past and past participle opinioned)

1. (transitive, archaic) To have or express as an opinion.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Graden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 166)

     But if (as some opinion) King Ahasuerus were Artaxerxes Mnemon [...], our magnified Cyrus was his second Brother

Translations

opine — see opine

References

• opinion at OneLook Dictionary Search
• opinion in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• opinion in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

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Esperanto

Noun

opinion

1. accusative singular of opinio

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French

Etymology

From Middle French opinion, from Latin opīniō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ.pi.njɔ̃/

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Noun

opinion f (plural opinions)

1. opinion (thought, estimation)

Derived terms

• délit d'opinion
• faiseur d'opinion
• opinion publique
• prisonnier d'opinion

 

Further reading

• “opinion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle French

Etymology

From Latin opīniō.

Noun

opinion f (plural opinions)

1. opinion (thought, estimation)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin opīniō, via French opinion.

Noun

opinion m (definite singular opinionen, indefinite plural opinioner, definite plural opinionene)

1. (public) opinion

Derived terms

• folkeopinion

References

• “opinion” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin opīniō, via French opinion.

Noun

opinion m (definite singular opinionen, indefinite plural opinionar, definite plural opinionane)

1. (public) opinion

Derived terms

• folkeopinion

References

• “opinion” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Occitan

Etymology

From Latin opīniō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

opinion f (plural opinions)

1. opinion

   Synonym: vejaire