thought
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *teng-der.
Proto-Germanic *þankijaną
Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz
Proto-West Germanic *þą̄ht
Old English þōht
Middle English thought
English thought
From Middle English thought, ithoȝt, from Old English þōht, ġeþōht, from Proto-West Germanic *þą̄ht, from Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz, *gaþanhtą (“thought”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think”). Cognate with Scots thocht (“thought”), Saterland Frisian Toacht (“thought”), West Frisian dacht (“attention, regard, thought”), Dutch gedachte (“thought”), German Andacht (“reverence, devotion, prayer”), Icelandic þóttur (“thought”). Related to thank, think.
Inflected forms:
form: thoughts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thowt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: thaught
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
form: thot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A representation created in the mind without the use of one's faculties of vision, sound, smell, touch, or taste; an instance of thinking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
I hate the thought of going back to work Monday morning.
I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.
He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
gloss: The operation by which mental activity arise or are manipulated; the process of thinking; the agency by which thinking is accomplished.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom, and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory.
What has been especially striking in recent decades, however, is the rise of new outlooks challenging the very idea of a nucleated (if evasive) inner personal identity. … We don't think our thoughts, they think us; we are but the bearers of discourses, our selves are discursive constructs. Within such frames of analysis, any notion of the ascent of selfhood is but idle teleological myth, a humanist hagiography.
gloss: A way of thinking (associated with a group, nation or region).
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Traditional eastern thought differs markedly from that of the west.
gloss: Anxiety, distress.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
uncountable
examples: Which of you by taking thought, can adde one cubite vnto his ſtature?
gloss: The careful consideration of multiple factors; deliberation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: After much thought, I have decided to stay.
gloss: A very small amount, distance, etc.; a whit or jot.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 'Bide the night at Heriotside,' says he. 'It's a thought out of your way, but it's a comfortable bit.'
Derived words: aforethought
afterthought
bethought
chain of thought
collect one's thoughts
counterthought
food for thought
forethought
freedom of thought
free thought
gather one's thoughts
give thought
habit of thought
have another thought coming
hindthought
hold that thought
intrusive thought
it's the thought that counts
line of thought
lost in thought
merrythought
metathought
midthought
misthought
mode of thought
mood-thought
MTE
nether thought
netherthought
nonthought
on second thought
on second thoughts
overthought
park that thought
passthought
penny for your thoughts
perish the thought
quick as thought
school of thought
second thought
shower thought
spare a thought for
there's a thought
thought balloon
thought-bearing
thought blocking
thought broadcasting
thought bubble
thoughtcast
thoughtcasting
thought collective
thought control
thought-controlled
thoughtcrime
thought criminal
thought echo
thoughted
thought experiment
thought-form
thoughtform
thoughtful
thought-leader
thought leader
thoughtless
thoughtlet
thoughtlike
thoughtograph
thoughtographer
thoughtography
thought-out
thought path
thought pattern
thought piece
thought police
thought process
thoughtproof
thought-provoking
thought reform
thoughts and prayers
thoughtscape
thoughtseed
thought shower
thoughtsick
thoughtsome
thought-terminating cliché
thought transference
thought wave
thoughtway
thought-world
thoughtworthy
thoughty
thread of thought
train of thought
twithought
underthought
unthought
unthoughted
wishful thought
wrongthought
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