suppose
express a supposition
How often you will meet it
Rank 383 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 51,851 times across 173,643 chapters — 0.025% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
verb
- express a supposition also: say Let us say that he did not tell the truthLet's say you had a lot of money--what would you do?
- expect, believe, or suppose also: think, opine, imagine, reckon, guess I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novelI thought to find her in a bad state
- to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds also: speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps
- take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand also: presuppose I presuppose that you have done your work
- require as a necessary antecedent or precondition also: presuppose This step presupposes two prior ones
suppose in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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But there was too much flirting, I suppose.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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It wasn't enough I suppose, as he called another fellow.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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I suppose I've been by it hundreds of times, but I never saw it till to-day.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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It is singular that men should care about what comes after them, but I suppose it is human nature.
A Knight of the White Cross · G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · Chapter 1
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I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1