• IPA: /əˈpɪnjən/

opinion (plural opinions)

1. A subjective belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed about a topic, issue, person or thing.

   I would like to know your opinions on the new filing system.

   In my opinion, white chocolate is better than milk chocolate.

   Every man is a fool in some man's opinion.

   • Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

2. The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
   • 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, I. vii. 32:

     I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.

   • Friendship […] gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.

3. (obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
   • 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, V. iv. 47:

     Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion.

   • 1670, John Milton, The History of Britain, […] , London: Printed by J.M. for James Alleſtry, […] , OCLC 78038412 ↗:

     This gained Agricola much opinion, who […] had made such early progress into laborious […] enterprises.

4. (obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
   • 1590, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, V. i. 5:

     Your reasons at / dinner have been sharp and sententious, pleasant / without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious / without impudency, learned without opinion, and / strange without heresy.

5. The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
6. (European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible

• opination
• opine
• opinionated

• French: avis, opinion
• German: Meinung, Ansicht, Anschauung
• Italian: opinione, concetto, parere, giudizio
• Portuguese: opinião
• Russian: мне́ние
• Spanish: opinión, parecer

• French: conclusions
• German: Schlussanträge
• Italian: conclusioni
• Portuguese: conclusão
• Spanish: conclusiones

opinion (opinions, present participle opinioning; past and past participle opinioned)

1. (transitive, archaic) To have or express as an opinion.
   • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Graden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 166)

     But if (as some opinion) King Ahasuerus were Artaxerxes Mnemon [...], our magnified Cyrus was his second Brother