An argument or disagreement, a failure to agree. / (uncountable) Verbal controversy or disagreement; altercation; debate.

(intransitive) to contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another. / (transitive) to make a subject of disputation; to argue pro and con; to discuss

simple past tense and past participle of dispute

Argued; not certain, agreed upon, or accepted. / (of territory) Claimed by more than one sovereign state.

One who disputes.

The state or quality of being disputable; disputableness.

Tending to dispute.

One who takes part in a dispute; a disputant or debater.

plural of disputation

plural of disputer