Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - suggestion

~ n 1 an idea, plan, or possibility that someone mentions  (have a suggestion)  (We've had several suggestions on a name for the baby. | make a suggestion)  (Can I just make one suggestion about how we might do this?) + tha  (He rejected my suggestion that we appoint Roger.)  (- see propose) 2 a suggestion of a slight amount of something  (There was just a suggestion of a smile on her face.) 3 the act of telling someone your idea about what they should do  (at sb's suggestion (=because someone suggested something))  (At her father's suggestion, she left Paris and returned home. | open to suggestions (=willing to listen to ideas)) 4 suggestion that/of (usually in questions and negatives) a slight possibility  (There was never any suggestion of criminal involvement.) 5 an indirect way of making you accept an idea, for example by hypnotism