suggestion

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♦ sug|ges|tion /sədʒ'estʃən, AM səgdʒ-/ (suggestions)
1 [N-COUNT] oft N of/for n/-ing
If you make a suggestion, you put forward an idea or plan for someone to think about.
The dietitian was helpful, making suggestions as to how I could improve my diet...
Perhaps he'd followed her suggestion of a stroll to the river...
2 [N-COUNT] oft N that
A suggestion is something that a person says which implies that something is the case.
We reject any suggestion that the law needs amending...
There are suggestions that he might be supported by the Socialists.
3 [N-SING] usu with brd-neg, N that, N of n
If there is no suggestion that something is the case, there is no reason to think that it is the case.
There is no suggestion whatsoever that the two sides are any closer to agreeing...
4 [N-COUNT] usu sing, N of n
If there is a suggestion of something, there is a slight amount or sign of it.
...that fashionably faint suggestion of a tan.
...a firm, well-sprung mattress with not one suggestion of a sag.
= hint
5 [N-UNCOUNT]
Suggestion means giving people a particular idea by associating it with other ideas.
The power of suggestion is very strong.

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