Usually means: Inquiry seeking information or clarification.
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  1. question: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. question, question: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. question: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. question: Collins English Dictionary
  5. question: Vocabulary.com
  6. Question, question, question: Wordnik
  7. question: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. question: Wiktionary
  9. question: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. question: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. question: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. question: Dictionary.com
  13. question (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. question: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Question: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. question: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. question: Rhymezone
  19. question, question (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. question: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Question: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. question: Free Dictionary
  23. question: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. question: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. question: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Question: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  2. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. question: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. question: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. question: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Question, question: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A worded or expressed sentence, phrase, or only a word on its own, which asks for information, a reply, or a response; an interrogative.
noun:  A subject or topic for consideration or investigation.
noun:  A doubt or challenge about the truth, accuracy, or validity of a matter.
noun:  A proposal to a meeting as a topic for deliberation.
noun:  (now archaic, historical, chiefly with definite article) Interrogation by torture.
noun:  (obsolete) Talk; conversation; speech.
verb:  (transitive) To ask questions of; to interrogate; to ask for information.
verb:  (transitive) To raise doubts about; have doubts about.
verb:  (intransitive) To ask a question or questions; inquire or seek to know; examine.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To argue; to converse; to dispute.

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