English Online Dictionary. What means petition? What does petition mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French peticiun, from stem of Latin petitio, petitionem (“a request, solicitation”), from petere (“to require, seek, go forward”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pəˈtɪʃ.ən/
Noun
petition (plural petitions)
- A formal, written request made to an official person or organized body, often containing many signatures.
- A compilation of signatures built in order to exert moral authority in support of a specific cause.
- (law) A formal written request for judicial action.
- A prayer; a supplication; an entreaty.
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Verb
petition (third-person singular simple present petitions, present participle petitioning, simple past and past participle petitioned)
- (transitive) To make a request to, commonly in written form.