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Definition debate

Etymology

From Old French debatre (“to fight, contend, debate, also literally to beat down”), from Romanic desbattere, from Latin dis- (“apart, in different directions”) + battuere (“to beat, to fence”).

Noun

debate (countable and uncountable, plural debates)

  1. An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.
  2. An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.
  3. (uncountable) Discussion of opposing views.
  4. (frequently in the French form débat) A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation, commonly found in the vernacular medieval poetry of many European countries, as well as in medieval Latin.
  5. (obsolete) Strife, discord.

Verb

debate (third-person singular simple present debates, present participle debating, simple past and past participle debated)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena. [from 14th c.]
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To fight. [14th-17th c.]
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To engage in combat for; to strive for.
  4. (transitive) To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide

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