# mention
## English
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle English mencioun, mention, from Old French mention, from Latin mentiōnem, accusative of mentiō (“a mention, calling to mind”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɛnʃən/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Hyphenation: men‧tion
* Rhymes: -ɛnʃən

### Noun

mention (plural mentions)
* A speaking or noticing of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 71:16:I will make mention of thy righteousness.
** 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention / Of me more must be heard of.
* (Internet, plural only) A social media feed, a list of replies or posts mentioning a person.
** 2012 November 20, Kavitha Rao, “The Problems With Policing Sexism on Twitter”, in The Atlantic:"I would like Twitter to put some kind of filters in place," suggests Prakash. "At present I can't see troll tweets if I block the user, but others who go into my 'mentions' can do so, and read the graphic abuse, which is disturbing."
** 2017 March 28, Jaleesa M. Jones, “Time to update your resumes: Chance the Rapper is hiring an intern”, in USA Today:In response to the flood of replies, Chance returned to Twitter several hours later — presumably, after his mentions calmed down — to request that users format their resumes as "creative decks, pitches or proposals" […] .
** 2018 December 3, Bari Weiss, Eve Peyser, “Can You Like the Person You Love to Hate?”, in The New York Times:I didn’t delete my account — yet! I know! I am full of shame! — but I did change the way I use it (no looking at my mentions; far less tweeting; aiming to highlight the work of people I like rather than criticize the work of those I don’t).

#### Usage notes

* The first sense is used especially in the phrase make mention of.

#### Derived terms

* honorable mention
* honorary mention
* make mention
* make mention of
* mentionable
* mentionless
* use-mention distinction

#### Translations
### Verb

mention (third-person singular simple present mentions, present participle mentioning, simple past and past participle mentioned)
* To make a short reference to something.
** 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. […] Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.
* (philosophy, linguistics) To utter a word or expression in order to refer to the expression itself, as opposed to its usual referent.
** 2006, Tony Evans, The Transforming Word: Discovering the Power and Provision of the Bible, Moody Publishers, →ISBN, page 140:I can illustrate this by mentioning the word lead. Now you have no way of knowing for sure which meaning I have in mind until I give it some context by using it in a sentence.
** 2009, Lieven Vandelanotte, Speech and Thought Representation in English: A Cognitive-functional Approach, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 124:If the verbatimness view derives from the popular notion that DST repeats 'the actual words spoken', a second line of thought takes its cue from Quine's (1940: 23–26, 1960: 146–156) philosophical distinction between words which are “used” vs. words which are merely “mentioned”.
** 2013, Richard Hanley, South Park and Philosophy: Bigger, Longer, and More Penetrating, Open Court, →ISBN:If I said rightly, “'Niggers' is a seven letter word,” I would be mentioning the word, and when we write it, we use mention-quotes for this purpose (speech typically lacks quotes, except for the occasional air-quotes). If I said, rightly or wrongly, “Niggers are good athletes,” then I would be using “niggers,” not merely mentioning it.

#### Synonyms

(make a short reference to something): See Thesaurus:mention

#### Derived terms

* come to mention it
* don't mention it
* more than one cares to mention
* not to mention
* now that you mention it
* now you mention it
* unmention

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* nontime, omentin

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mentiōnem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɑ̃.sjɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

mention f (plural mentions)
* mention (act of mentioning)
* slogan

#### Derived terms

* faire mention

#### Related terms

* mentionner

### Further reading

* “mention”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* mencion, mension

### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mentiōnis, mentiōnis.

### Noun

mention oblique singular, f (oblique plural mentions, nominative singular mention, nominative plural mentions)
* mention (act of mentioning)

### See also

* mentevoir