How to Spell thesis
thesis
thesis - noun
- A dissertation embodying results of original research and especially substantiating a specific view
- A proposition to be proved or one advanced without proof : hypothesis
- A position or proposition that a person (such as a candidate for scholastic honors) advances and offers to maintain by argument
- The accented part of a musical measure : downbeat {dx}compare {dxt|arsis||}{/dx}
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API
thesis - thesaurus
Synonyms: assertion
Etymology
In sense 3, Middle English, lowering of the voice, from Late Latin & Greek; Late Latin, from Greek, downbeat, more important part of a foot, literally, act of laying down; in other senses, Latin, from Greek, literally, act of laying down, from tithenai to put, lay down