OBJECTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does objection mean? 

• OBJECTION (noun)
  The noun OBJECTION has 4 senses:

1. the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest

2. the speech act of objecting

3. the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent

4. (law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegality

  Familiarity information: OBJECTION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBJECTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of expressing earnest opposition or protest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

expostulation; objection; remonstrance; remonstration

Hypernyms ("objection" is a kind of...):

communicating; communication (the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information)

Derivation:

object (express or raise an objection or protest or criticism or express dissent)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The speech act of objecting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("objection" is a kind of...):

speech act (the use of language to perform some act)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "objection"):

challenge (a formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror)

complaint (an expression of grievance or resentment)

demur; demurral; demurrer ((law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings)

dissent ((law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority)

exception (grounds for adverse criticism)

beef; bitch; gripe; kick; squawk (informal terms for objecting)

protest; protestation (a formal and solemn declaration of objection)

protest (the act of making a strong public expression of disagreement and disapproval)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

dissent; objection; protest

Hypernyms ("objection" is a kind of...):

resistance (group action in opposition to those in power)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "objection"):

boycott (a group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies)

direct action (a protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands)

demonstration; manifestation (a public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature))

walkout (the act of walking out (of a meeting or organization) as a sign of protest)

Derivation:

object (express or raise an objection or protest or criticism or express dissent)

object (be averse to or express disapproval of)

Sense 4

Meaning:

(law) a procedure whereby a party to a suit says that a particular line of questioning or a particular witness or a piece of evidence or other matter is improper and should not be continued and asks the court to rule on its impropriety or illegality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("objection" is a kind of...):

procedure (a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "objection"):

recusation ((law) an objection grounded on the judge's relationship to one of the parties)

 Context examples 

When everything was settled, when Miss Tilney herself said that Tuesday would suit her as well, it was quite ridiculous, quite absurd, to make any further objection.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Lady Bertram was perfectly quiescent and contented, and had no objections to make.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Yes; it is in two points offensive to me; I have two strong grounds of objection to it.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I have no objections at all to meeting the Hartfield family.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“Quite as comfortable as we can expect a young mother to be, under these melancholy domestic circumstances. There cannot be any objection to your seeing her presently, ma'am. It may do her good.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Yes, yes," he shut off her attempted objection.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Have you any objection to my closing your shutters?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When I had put an end to these long discources, his majesty, in a sixth audience, consulting his notes, proposed many doubts, queries, and objections, upon every article.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The man said: “I have no objection, but be quick and get me something to eat.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)