mind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mīnd
ipa: /maɪnd/
homophone: mined
rhymes: -aɪnd
Forms: form: minds
form: minding
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Etymology: From Middle English minde, münde, ȝemünde, from Old English ġemynd (“memory”), from Proto-West Germanic *mundi, *gamundi, from Proto-Germanic *mundiz, *gamundiz (“memory, remembrance”), from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought”) (compare also mantis, via Greek), from the root *men- (“to think”).
Cognate with Old High German gimunt (“mind, memory”), Danish minde (“memory”), Swedish minne (“memory”), Icelandic minni (“memory, recall, recollection”), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍃 (munds, “memory, mind”), Latin mēns (“mind, reason”), Sanskrit मनस् (mánas), Ancient Greek μένος (ménos), Albanian mënd (“mind, reason”). Doublet of mantra. Related to Old English myntan (“to mean, intend, purpose, determine, resolve”). More at mint.
Senses: examples: text: Mind to-morrow's early meeting!
ref: 1878, Robert Browning, La Saisiaz, line 70:
glosses: To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
examples: text: The land where I shall mind you not / Is the land where all's forgot.
ref: 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXXVII, lines 25-26
glosses: To remember.
examples: text: Farewell, kind lord; fight valiantly to-day: / And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, / For thou art framed of the firm truth of valour.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
text: Let me be punished, that have minded you Of what you should forget.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth
I desire to mind those persons of what Saint Austin hath said.
text: This minds me of a cobbling colonel of famous memory.
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
text: I shall only mind him, that the contrary supposition, if it could be proved, is of little use.
ref: 1689, John Locke, “Of True and False Ideas”, in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding:
text: He minded them of the mutability of all earthly things.
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: To remind; put one's mind on.
examples: text: Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me / For bringing wood in slowly. I'll fall flat; / Perchance he will not mind me.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
examples: text: Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 12:16:
text: It's the worst thing that can ever happen to you in all your life, and you've got to mind it—you've got to mind it. They'll come saying, 'Bear up—trust to time.' No, no; they're wrong. Mind it.
ref: 1907 E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, V [Uniform ed., p. 63]
glosses: To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
examples: text: Mind you don't knock that glass over.
glosses: To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).
examples: text: You should mind your own business.
text: My lord, you nod: you do not mind the play.
ref: c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: Upon my coming down, I found all the Children of the Family got about my old Friend, and my Landlady herself, who is a notable prating Gossip, engaged in a Conference with him; being mightily pleased with his stroaking her little Boy upon the Head, and bidding him be a good Child and mind his Book.
ref: 1712, Joseph Addison, Spectator, No. 383 (May 20, 1710
text: Should you ever have a son, Sansa, beat him frequently so he learns to mind you.
ref: 2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Sansa [Stark]”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager, →ISBN, page 68:
qualifier: now rare except in phrases
glosses: To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
examples: text: Would you mind my bag for me?
glosses: To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
examples: text: Bank Underground Station, London, is built on a curve, leaving a potentially dangerous gap between platform and carriage to trap the unwary. The loudspeaker voice instructs passengers to "Mind the gap": the boundary between train and platform.
ref: 2005, Gillie Bolton, Reflective Practice: Writing And Professional Development, →ISBN, page xv:
glosses: To be careful about.
examples: text: I mind to tell him plainly what I think.
ref: c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: […]and if ever I refused to do his bidding or loitered or took my leisure he beat me with his feet more grievously than if I had been beaten with whips. He ceased not to signal with his hand wherever he was minded to go; so I carried him about the island, like a captive slave, and he bepissed and conskited my shoulders and back, dismounting not night nor day; and whenas he wished to sleep he wound his legs about his neck and leaned back and slept awhile, then arose and beat me; whereupon I sprang up in haste, unable to gainsay him because of the pain he inflicted on me.
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
qualifier: now obsolete outside dialect
glosses: To purpose, intend, plan.
examples: text: I'm not very healthy. I do eat fruit sometimes, mind.
glosses: Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
examples: text: I wouldn't mind an ice cream right now.
text: Do you mind if I smoke?
glosses: To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
Synonyms: sense: pay attention to
word: heed
Derived terms: childmind
don't mind if I do
do you mind
foremind
if you don't mind me saying
minder
mind how you go
mind one's business
mind one's language
mind one's own business
beeswax
mind one's peas and cues
mind one's pees and cues
mind one's pees and ques
mind one's ps and qs
mind one's P's and Q's
mind out
mind the gap
mind the store
shop
mind you
mind your eye
never mind
nevermind
never you mind
remind
unmind
would you mind putting on your seat belt