Debate
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Noun
debate (plural: debates)
- 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.
- After a four-hour debate, the committee voted to table the motion.
- an informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.
- The debate over the age of the universe is thousands of years old.
- There was a bit of a debate over who should pay for the damaged fence.
- (uncountable) Discussion of opposing views.
- There has been considerable debate concerning exactly how to format these articles.
- (frequently in 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.
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Verb
to debate (third-person singular simple present debates, present participle debating, simple past debated, past participle debated)
- to participate in a debate.
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Albanian
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debate mpl; plural form of debat.