Definition of "opinion"

opinion

/əˈpɪnjən/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural opinions
1. A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing.
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  Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
  1891, Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist
2. The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
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  I haue bought / Golden Opinions from all ſorts of people, […]
  c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene vii], page 135, column 1, line 32
  Friendship […] gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.
  1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727
3. (obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
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  Thou haſt redeemed thy loſt opinion, […]
  c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, [Act V, scene iv], signature K2, verso
  This gain’d Agricola much opinion; who […] had made ſuch early progreſs into laborious […] enterpriſes.
  1670, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for James Allestry, […] , page 70
4. (obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
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  […] your reaſons at Dinner haue been ſharpe & ſententious: pleaſant without ſcurillitie, wittie without affection, audatious without impudencie, learned without opinion, and ſtrange without hereſie: […]
  c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [Act V, scene i], lines 3–6
5. The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
6. (European Union law) A judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible.
verb
third-person singular simple present opinions, present participle opinioning, simple past and past participle opinioned
1. (transitive, archaic) To have or express as an opinion.
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  But if (as some opinion) King Ahasuerus were Artaxerxes Mnemon [...], our magnified Cyrus was his second Brother
  1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Graden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 166

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