Definition of "propose"

propose

/pɹəˈpəʊz/

verb
third-person singular simple present proposes, present participle proposing, simple past and past participle proposed
1. (transitive) To suggest a plan, course of action, etc.
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  President Moon Jae-in proposed the plan this week during a meeting with government officials, his spokesman said. Audio (US)(file)
  2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
2. (intransitive, sometimes followed by to) To ask for a person's hand in marriage.
3. (transitive) To intend.
  Quotations
  I propose to relate, in several volumes, the history of the people of New England.
  1859, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England, Preface (Google preview)
  Many of the proposed dams would be among the tallest in the world.
  2013 August 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 8
4. (obsolete) To talk; to converse.
  Quotations
  HERO. Good Margaret, run thee to the parlour;There shalt thou find my cousin BeatriceProposing with the prince and Claudio
  1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene i]
5. (obsolete) To set forth.
  Quotations
  […] so weighty was the cup,That being propos'd brimful of wine, one scarce could lift it up.The spelling has been modernized.
  , Homer, “Book XI”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter; The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new edition, volume I, London: Charles Knight and Co., […], 1843,
noun
plural proposes
1. (obsolete) An objective or aim.
  Quotations
  whose aime hath beene to make us not good and wittie, but wise and learned; She hath attained her propose.
  1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […]

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