See Also: thesis(medicine)
thesis(dictionary)
thesis(dictionary)

thesis (oh)



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[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Latin; Origin: Greek, 'act of laying down', from tithenai 'to put, lay down']
a long piece of writing about a particular subject that you do as part of an advanced university degree such as an MA or a PhD
::Cynthia's still working on her thesis.
graduate/master's/doctoral thesis
::He wrote his doctoral thesis on contemporary French literature.
formal an idea or opinion about something, that you discuss in a formal way and give examples for
::Their main thesis was that the rise in earnings was due to improvements in education.
AmE in writing, the thesis is the sentence or group of sentences which state what the main idea of an essay is
::a paragraph introducing your thesis statement