petition

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

1. a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority (Freq. 6)
• Syn:
request, postulation
• Derivationally related forms:
petitionary, request (for: request)
• Hypernyms:
message, content, subject matter, substance
• Hyponyms:
application, solicitation, appeal, collection, ingathering, demand
2. reverent petition to a deity
• Syn:
prayer, orison
• Derivationally related forms:
pray (for: prayer)
• Hypernyms:
request, asking
• Hyponyms:
prayer wheel, benediction, blessing, collect, commination,
commination, grace, thanksgiving, intercession, invocation,
supplication, requiescat

II - verb

write a petition for something to somebody;
request formally and in writing (Freq. 2)
• Derivationally related forms:
petitioner
• Hypernyms:
request, bespeak, call for, quest
• Hyponyms:
supplicate
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- They petition to move

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  prayer, orison, request, postulation