supposing
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /səˈpoʊzɪŋ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /səˈpəʊzɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊzɪŋ
- Hyphenation: sup‧pos‧ing
Verb edit
supposing
- present participle and gerund of suppose
Noun edit
supposing (plural supposings)
- The act of making a supposition.
- 1837, The Dublin University Magazine:
- She could have joined most comfortably in all their supposings, and suspicions, and doubts, and prognostications, but the honour of the family was too nearly concerned to allow free reins to her tongue.
Conjunction edit
supposing
- if hypothetically (optionally followed by that)
- 2013, Flora Annie Steel, “The Three Sillies”, in English Fairy Tales[1]:
- Supposing our daughter was to marry her sweetheart, and supposing they was to have a son, and supposing he was to grow to man’s estate, and supposing he was to come down to draw cider like as we’re doing, and supposing that there mallet was to fall on his head and kill him, how dreadful it would be!
Translations edit
if hypothetically
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