DISCUSSION as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic
   Synonym(s)
   • discourse (what does discourse mean?)
   • treatment (what does treatment mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic
   • his treatment of the race question is badly biased
   Hypernyms(s) discussion is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • communication (what does communication mean?)
   • communicating (what does communicating mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • detail (what does detail mean?)
   • dilation (what does dilation mean?)
   • consideration (what does consideration mean?)
   • talk (what does talk mean?)
   • expansion (what does expansion mean?)
   • enlargement (what does enlargement mean?)
   • elaboration (what does elaboration mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • discourse (what does discourse mean?)
   • talk about (what does talk about mean?)
   • discuss (what does discuss mean?)
   • cover (what does cover mean?)
   • treat (what does treat mean?)
   • handle (what does handle mean?)
   • plow (what does plow mean?)
   • deal (what does deal mean?)
   • address (what does address mean?)
   • discourse (what does discourse mean?)
   • talk about (what does talk about mean?)
   • discuss (what does discuss mean?)
2. Meaning
   • an exchange of views on some topic
   Synonym(s)
   • give-and-take (what does give-and-take mean?)
   • word (what does word mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • we had a good discussion
   • we had a word or two about it
   Hypernyms(s) discussion is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • speech (what does speech mean?)
   • speech communication (what does speech communication mean?)
   • spoken communication (what does spoken communication mean?)
   • spoken language (what does spoken language mean?)
   • language (what does language mean?)
   • voice communication (what does voice communication mean?)
   • oral communication (what does oral communication mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • argument (what does argument mean?)
   • argumentation (what does argumentation mean?)
   • debate (what does debate mean?)
   • deliberation (what does deliberation mean?)
   • conference (what does conference mean?)
   • group discussion (what does group discussion mean?)
   • panel discussion (what does panel discussion mean?)
   • postmortem (what does postmortem mean?)
   • public discussion (what does public discussion mean?)
   • ventilation (what does ventilation mean?)
   • negotiation (what does negotiation mean?)
   • dialogue (what does dialogue mean?)
   • talks (what does talks mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • hash out (what does hash out mean?)
   • discuss (what does discuss mean?)
   • talk over (what does talk over mean?)