Petition
Meaning of Petition
A formal written request signed by many people.
ما معنى كلمة Petition بالعربي؟
عريضة أو طلب رسمي
📜✍️ عريضة أو طلب رسمي جماعي؛ وثيقة تحمل توقيعات للمطالبة بشيء؛ التماس مكتوب يُقدم للسلطات لطلب إجراء معين 📜🤝
قصة GL: عرائض التأييد لمنهجية التعلم الجيني وصلت من آلاف المستفيدين - توقيعات حقيقية من أشخاص تحولت حياتهم، مثل المشارك الذي وصل لمنصب نائب مدير، تُشكل أقوى التماس لاستمرار تطوير هذه التقنيات الثورية 📋
Synonyms & related words
Petition in a sentence
A petition supported funding for memory research.
A petition by customers led to a new feature.
A petition was filed with the court.
Students start a petition for a longer break.
Origin of Petition
From Latin petitio, from petere 'to seek'.
In the Genetic Learning (GL) context
In Genetic Learning work led by Naif Talal Al-Essa, petition is a formal request. Patent applicants also file a petition when needed.
Petition audio micro-course (transcript)
Podcast 1 — Introduction & meaning
Narrator: Today's word is "Petition" — noun, pronounced /pəˈtɪʃ.ən/, with the stress on "ti".
Narrator: A petition is a formal written request, usually signed by many people, asking an authority to act or to change something.
Narrator: In plain English, it is a letter with a long list of names behind it, saying please do this, or please stop doing that.
Narrator: It comes from the Latin petitio, meaning a request or a seeking, from petere, to seek or to ask, which also gives us appetite and compete.
Narrator: A very common collocation is to sign a petition, which describes adding your name to a public request so that the weight of numbers is visible.
Narrator: It differs from a complaint, because a complaint reports a grievance backwards in time, while a petition asks for a specific action going forwards.
Narrator: There is also a legal sense, as in a petition for divorce or a petition to the court, and the word works as a verb too, as when campaigners petition Parliament.
Narrator: Law, politics, local government, charity campaigning and online activism all rely on the word every single day.
Narrator: So remember: a petition is a formal request with names behind it, asking someone in power to do something.
Read podcasts 2 and 3
Podcast 2 — In conversation
Speaker A: Why does a petition feel more powerful than just writing a letter on your own?
Speaker B: Because of the signatures! PETITION comes from the Latin petere, to seek, and the whole point is that hundreds of people are seeking the same thing at once.
Speaker A: So the number of names really is the argument?
Speaker B: Exactly, the names are the evidence of public feeling, and in Britain a petition with enough signatures can even trigger a debate in Parliament.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "She signed the petition outside the library," meaning she added her name in support. "The residents launched a petition against the new car park," meaning they started an organised request. "He filed a petition with the High Court," meaning he made a formal legal application.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Do not confuse petition with partition, which means a dividing wall or a splitting up, and remember it is spelled with t i t i o n, never with a double t.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Appeal is the emotive cousin, plea is the urgent twin, and application is the dry official alternative, but petition keeps its people-powered charm!
Podcast 3 — Prompt engineering
Speaker B: Let's use "petition" in AI prompts — useful for building a campaign signature platform and for drafting formal request documents in a case management tool.
Speaker A: How does it apply to the signature platform first?
Speaker B: Ask for the data model behind it.
Prompt: Design a database schema for a petition platform that stores each petition, its target authority, its signature count and one verified signature record per user.
Speaker A: And for the document drafting side?
Speaker B: Ask for a reusable template generator.
Prompt: Write a function that generates a formal petition letter from a title, a stated request, a recipient name and a list of signatories, returning clean printable text.
Speaker A: What about protecting it from abuse?
Speaker B: Ask for validation and fraud checks.
Prompt: Add server side validation to a petition signing endpoint that blocks duplicate email addresses, rate limits submissions by address and flags suspicious bursts of activity.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Let's report on progress for the campaign team.
Prompt: Create a dashboard component that shows petition signature growth over time, the percentage of the target reached and the top ten regions by signatory count.
Frequently asked questions about Petition
What does Petition mean?
A formal written request signed by many people.
ما معنى كلمة Petition بالعربي؟
عريضة أو طلب رسمي — 📜✍️ عريضة أو طلب رسمي جماعي؛ وثيقة تحمل توقيعات للمطالبة بشيء؛ التماس مكتوب يُقدم للسلطات لطلب إجراء معين 📜🤝
How do you pronounce Petition?
Petition is pronounced /pəˈtɪʃn/ and is used as a noun / verb.
How is Petition used in a sentence?
A petition supported funding for memory research.
What are synonyms of Petition?
appeal, plea, request, application, entreaty, solicit.