Assumption - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |əˈsʌmpʃn|  American pronunciation of the word assumption
Brit.  |əˈsʌm(p)ʃ(ə)n|  British pronunciation of the word assumption

noun

- a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn (syn: premise, premiss)
on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not play
- a hypothesis that is taken for granted (syn: supposition)
any society is built upon certain assumptions
- the act of taking possession of or power over something
his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba
the Nazi assumption of power in 1934
he acquired all the company's assets for ten million dollars and the assumption of the company's debts
- celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox Church
- (Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended
- audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to (syn: effrontery, presumption, presumptuousness)
- the act of assuming or taking for granted
your assumption that I would agree was unwarranted

Extra examples

I made the assumption that he was coming, so I was surprised when he didn't show up.

He will come home tomorrow. At least, that's my assumption.

Many scientific assumptions about Mars were wrong.

I'm telling you our arrival time on the assumption that you will check to see whether or not our flight is on time before you come to the airport.

Her plan is based on the underlying assumption that the economy will improve in the near future.

We all made the assumption that the new company would fail.

We proceeded on the assumption that he would help.

Assumption of the Virgin Mary

A lot of people make the assumption that poverty only exists in the Third World.

My calculations were based on the assumption that house prices would remain steady.

We are working on the assumption that the conference will take place as planned.

People make a lot of assumptions about me.

...the Catholic dogma of the bodily assumption of the Virgin Mary...

...one of the postulates that the true agnostic rejects is the assumption that it is even possible for us to know whether God exists...

We're working on the assumption that the conference will take place in Canada, as planned.

Word forms

noun
singular: assumption
plural: assumptions
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