opinion

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, 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.”

   “We invite you to state your opinions about the suggestions.”

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

2. (countable, uncountable)The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.

   “I haue 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. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.

   “Thou haſt redeemed thy loſt opinion, […]”

   “This gain’d Agricola much opinion; who […] had made ſuch early progreſs into laborious […] enterpriſes.”

4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.

   “[…] your reaſons at Dinner haue been ſharpe & ſententious: pleaſant without ſcurillitie, wittie without affection, audatious without impudencie, learned without opinion, and ſtrange without hereſie: […]”

5. (countable, uncountable)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, countable, uncountable)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.

verb

1. (archaic, transitive)To have or express as an opinion.

   “Philoſophers that opinioned the vvorlds deſtruction by fire, did never dreame of annihilation, vvhich is beyond the povver of ſublunary cauſes; for the laſt and proper action of that element [fire] is but vitrification, or a reduction of a body into Glaſſe, and therefore ſome of our Chymicks factiouſly affirme; yea, and urge Scripture for it, that at the laſt fire all ſhall be cryſtallized and reverberated into Glaſſe, vvhich is the utmoſt action of that element.”

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