s'pose
/spəʊ̯z/US/spoʊ̯z/
s'pose is the pronunciation spelling of suppose.
Meaning of suppose
Verb
suppose (third-person singular simple present supposes, present participle supposing, simple past and past participle supposed)
- To take for granted; to conclude, with less than absolute supporting data; to believe.
- I suppose we all agree that this is the best solution.
- Synonyms:
- assume
- To theorize or hypothesize.
- Suppose that A implies B and B implies C. Then A implies C.
- Synonyms:
- assume
- To imagine; to believe; to receive as true.
- How easy is a bush supposed a bear!c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First...
- To reckon to be, to account or esteem as.
- [He] keeps you from the honors of a Queene,
Being ſuppoſde his worthleſſe Concubine.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
- [He] keeps you from the honors of a Queene,
- To require to exist or to be true; to imply by the laws of thought or of nature.
- Purpose supposes foresight.
- To put by fraud in the place of another; to substitute fraudulently.
- A Water-monster, called the Nickard, does enter by night the chamber, where a woman is brought to bed, and stealeth when they are all sleeping, the new-born child and supposeth another in its place, which child growing up is like a monster and commonly dumb.1687, John Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme, page 30
Forms of s'pose
| third-person singular present | s'poses |
|---|---|
| present participle | s'posing |
| past participle | s'posed |
| past | s'posed |
| alternative form | spose |
Words that rhyme with s'pose
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- interpose
- propose
- gloze
- oppose
- disclose
- foreclose
- prose
- snows
- turn up one's nose
- unclose
- adipose
- appose
- arose
- chose
- counterpose
- croze
- decompose
- doze
- enclose
- froze
- hoes
- knows
- adoze
- apollos
- beaus
- beprose
- blows
- bose
- bros
- châteaux
- cloze
- coze
- crows
- does
- dos
- doughs
- fallows
- fellows
- flows
- foes
- follows
- foredispose
- frows
- glows
- goes
- grows
- hard-nose
- hollows
Questions about s'pose
- What is s'pose the pronunciation spelling of?
- S'pose is the pronunciation spelling of suppose.
- How do you pronounce s'pose?
- S'pose is pronounced /spəʊ̯z/ (UK).
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Adapted from Wiktionary: s'pose (page history and authors); suppose (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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