Word Definition

Moot

  1. of Mot
  2. To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion.
  3. Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.
  4. To argue or plead in a supposed case.
  5. Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.
  6. A ring for gauging wooden pins.
  7. A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot.
  8. A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.