notion

3 definitions • 4 examples

a belief or idea:

[ + that ] The show's director rejects the notion that seeing violence on television has a harmful effect on children.

I have only a vague notion of what she does for a living.

cloth, pins, thread, etc. used for sewing, or a shop or a department of a large store that sells these:

There's a fabric store there that sells notions.

a belief or idea:

Nast helped form the American notion of Santa Claus.