All 3 Uses of
speculate
in
A Room of One's Own
- In a minute or so we were slipping freely in and out among all those objects of curiosity and interest which form in the mind in the absence of a particular person, and are naturally to be discussed on coming together again—how somebody has married, another has not; one thinks this, another that; one has improved out of all knowledge, the other most amazingly gone to the bad—with all those speculations upon human nature and the character of the amazing world we live in which spring naturally from such beginnings.†
Chpt 1 *speculations = thoughts, guesses, or theories; or the act of thinking, guessing, or theorizing
- So thinking, so speculating I found my way back to my house by the river.†
Chpt 2
- It would be better, instead of speculating what Mary Carmichael might write and should write, to see what in fact Mary Carmichael did write.†
Chpt 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(speculate as in: don't know, but I'll speculate) to think about, wonder, guess or theorize with much uncertainty
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(2)
(speculate as in: speculate in the stock market) to take a risk for profit--typically a risky investment
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely, speculation can refer to a gambling card game that was popular in the past.