mind
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English minde, munde, imynde, imunde, ȝemynde, ȝemunde, from Old English mynd, ġemynd (“mind, 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, remembrance"; Middle High German munst (“love, benevolence, joy”)), Old Norse mynd (“image, model”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍃 (gamunds, “remembrance, memory, mind”). Related also to Danish minde (“memory”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish minne (“memory”), Faroese and Icelandic minni (“memory, recall, recollection”), Latin mēns (“mind, reason”), Sanskrit मनस् (mánas), Ancient Greek μένος (ménos), Albanian mënd (“mind, reason”). Related to mantra. Compare also Old English myntan (“to mean, intend, purpose, determine, resolve”). More at mint.
Inflected forms:
form: minds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: minds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: minding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: minded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: minded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: mind
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: mind
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: minded
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: mind
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: mindest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: minded
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: mindedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: minds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mindeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: minded
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: mind
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: minded
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: mind
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: minded
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: mind
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: minding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: minded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: The capability for rational thought.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Despite advancing age, his mind was still as sharp as ever.
And ſure, although it was invented to eaſe his mynde of griefe, there be a number of caveats therein to forewarne other young gentlemen to foreſtand with good government their folowing yl fortunes; […]
“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
gloss: The ability to be aware of things.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There was no doubt in his mind that they would win.
gloss: The ability to remember things.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My mind just went blank.
gloss: The ability to focus the thoughts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I can’t keep my mind on what I’m doing.
gloss: Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He was one of history’s greatest minds.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, […]
That's far from the promised land set out in the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail, that the railways would have a guiding mind that would be in control of the industry's finances. Businesses have what is called a profit and loss account, showing both revenue and costs, but the current situation means that the two sides of the system are in different hands - and neither is (as yet) in the hands of a 'guiding mind'.
gloss: Judgment, opinion, or view.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He changed his mind after hearing the speech.
gloss: Desire, inclination, or intention.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She had a mind to go to Paris.
I have half a mind to do it myself.
I am of a mind to listen.
I fortuned to come in,
Thys rebell to behold,
Whereof I hym controld;
But he sayde that he wolde
Agaynst my mynde and wyll
In my church hawke styll.
Although Miss Pross, through her long association with a French family, might have known as much of their language as of her own, if she had had a mind, she had no mind in that direction […] So her manner of marketing was to plump a noun-substantive at the head of a shopkeeper without any introduction in the nature of an article […]
gloss: A healthy mental state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I, ______ being of sound mind and body, do hereby[…]
You are losing your mind.
gloss: The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The nature of the mind is a major topic in philosophy.
Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
The mind is that part of our being which thinks and wills, remembers and reasons; we know nothing of it except from these functions.
Thus they dwelled for nearly a year, and in that time Robin Hood often turned over in his mind many means of making an even score with the Sheriff.
[…] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.
gloss: Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a month's [or monthly] mind; a year's mind
gloss: Attention, consideration or thought.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: They are the “tars” who give mind to the spreading sail, and their bold courage is the pabulum which will preserve our sea-girt isle in its vernal green to furthest posterity.
Then he, having mind of Beelzebub, the god of flies, fled without a halt homewards; but, falling in the coo's loan, broke two ribs and a collar bone, the whilk misfortune was much blessed to his soul.
If you get a “trolling” comment, delete it, do not respond to it, and move forward immediately without paying any further mind.
gloss: To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
pos: verb
examples: Mind to-morrow's early meeting!
gloss: To remember.
pos: verb
tags: regional
examples: The land where I shall mind you not / Is the land where all's forgot.
gloss: To remind; put one's mind on.
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
obsolete
examples: 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.
Let me be punished, that have minded you Of what you should forget.
1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth
I desire to mind those persons of what Saint Austin hath said.
This minds me of a cobbling colonel of famous memory.
I shall only mind him, that the contrary supposition, if it could be proved, is of little use.
He minded them of the mutability of all earthly things.
gloss: To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).
pos: verb
tags: imperative
examples: Mind you don't knock that glass over.
gloss: To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
pos: verb
examples: You should mind your own business.
My lord, you nod: you do not mind the play.
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.
Should you ever have a son, Sansa, beat him frequently so he learns to mind you.
gloss: To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
pos: verb
examples: Would you mind my bag for me?
gloss: To be careful about.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To purpose, intend, plan.
pos: verb
examples: I mind to tell him plainly what I think.
[…]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.
gloss: Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
UK
examples: I'm not very healthy. I do eat fruit sometimes, mind.
gloss: To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
pos: verb
examples: I wouldn't mind an ice cream right now.
Do you mind if I smoke?
Derived words: absence of mind
absent-minded
a contented mind is a perpetual feast
aftermind
a healthy body is a healthy mind
amind
a mind is a terrible thing to waste
back of one's mind
badmind
bad mind
bear in mind
bemind
beminded
be of one mind
bicameral mind
big mind
blow someone's mind
bodymind
bored out of one's mind
breadth of mind
bring to mind
call to mind
cast one's mind back
change of mind
change one's mind
change someone's mind
closed-mindedly
close-mindedly
close one's mind
come to mind
cross someone's mind
cybermind
digital mind
dirty mind
double-minded
ease one's mind
enmind
frame of mind
front of mind
get one's mind out of the gutter
give someone a piece of one's mind
good-minded
great minds think alike
groupmind
habit of mind
half a mind
have a good mind to
have a mind like a sieve
have a mind of one's own
have a mind to
have in mind
have one's mind about one
hivemind
hive mind
in mind
in one's right mind
in two minds
Jedi mind trick
keep in mind
know one's mind
know one's own mind
lack-mind
leap to mind
legend in one's own mind
like-minded
live rent-free in someone's mind
lose one's mind
make up one's mind
mastermind
meeting of the minds
megamind
mind-altering
mindbender
mind-bending
mind bleach
mindblindness
mindblow
mindblower
mind-blowing
mindblown
mind-body
mind-boggler
mind boggler
mindboggling
mindbogglingly
mind-boggling
mind boggling
mind break
mind candy
mind-control
mind control
mind cure
mind eraser
mind-expanding
mindfile
mindflow
mindframe
mind-frying
mindfuckery
mind-fuckery
mindfuck
mind fuck
mindful
mind game
mindgasm
mind-healing
mindhood
mindism
mindist
mindless
mindlike
mind like a sieve
mind like a steel trap
mindlock
mindly
mind machine
mind map
mind mapper
mind-meld
mind meld
mind-muscle connection
mind-numbing
mind over matter
mind palace
mindpower
mindquake
mind rape
mind-reader
mind reader
mind-reading
mind reading
mindread
mind-read
mind rhyme
mindscape
mindscrew
mind's ear
mind-searching
mindset
mind's eye
mindshare
mind share
mindsight
mindstate
mindstep
mindstream
mindstyle
mindswap
mindswapping
mindtool
mind virus
mindware
mind-warping
mindwash
mindwipe
month mind
month's mind
nethermind
not pay any mind
of a mind
off-minded
of one mind
of sound mind
of two minds
one-track mind
one track mind
on one's mind
on someone's mind
open mind
open one's mind
out of one's cotton-picking mind
out of one's mind
out of sight is out of mind
out of sight, out of mind
out one's mind
overmind
pay no mind
peace of mind
philosophy of mind
presence of mind
put in mind
put one's mind to it
put out of one's mind
put someone in mind of
reactive mind
read someone's mind
right-minded
same-minded
scare someone out of their mind
slip someone's mind
speak one's mind
spring to mind
state of mind
submind
supermind
the inner machinations of one's mind are an enigma
the mind boggles
theory of mind
time out of mind
times out of mind
to one's mind
top-of-mind awareness
top of mind awareness
top-of-mind
top of mind
turn of mind
twelvemonth mind
twelvemonth's mind
undermind
universal mind
ur-mind
weight off someone's mind
what's on your mind
woke mind virus
wrap one's mind around
year mind
year's mind
childmind
foremind
minder
don't mind if I do
do you mind
I don't mind
if you don't mind me saying
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
Translations:
lang: Ainu
word: ケウトゥㇺ
roman: kewtum
lang: Ainu
word: ラㇺ
roman: ram
lang: Ainu
word: ラマ
roman: rama
lang: Ainu
word: ラマッ
roman: ramat
lang: Ainu
word: ラム
roman: ramu
lang: Albanian
word: mendje
lang: Amharic
word: አዕምሮ
roman: ʾäʿməro
lang: Chiricahua
word: -́nii
lang: Jicarilla
word: -́nii
lang: Western Apache
word: -́niʼ
lang: Arabic
word: عَقْل
roman: ʕaql
lang: Arabic
word: ذِهْن
roman: ḏihn
lang: Arabic
word: خَلَد
roman: ḵalad
lang: Arabic
word: عقل
roman: ʕaʔl
lang: Arabic
word: عَقِل
roman: ʕagil
lang: Armenian
word: բանականություն
roman: banakanutʻyun
lang: Armenian
word: խելք
roman: xelkʻ
lang: Old Armenian
word: միտ
roman: mit
lang: Aromanian
word: minte
lang: Assamese
word: মন
roman: mon
lang: Asturian
word: miente
lang: Azerbaijani
word: ağıl
lang: Azerbaijani
word: fikir
lang: Azerbaijani
word: zehin
lang: Bashkir
word: аҡыл
roman: aqıl
lang: Basque
word: adimen
lang: Basque
word: buru
lang: Basque
word: gogo
lang: Basque
word: sen
lang: Belarusian
word: ро́зум
roman: rózum
lang: Bengali
word: মন
roman: mon
lang: Bengali
word: চিন্তা
roman: cinta
lang: Breton
word: poell
lang: Bulgarian
word: ум
roman: um
lang: Bulgarian
word: ра́зум
roman: rázum
lang: Bulgarian
word: ми́съл
roman: mísǎl
lang: Bulgarian
word: а́къл
roman: ákǎl
lang: Burmese
word: စိတ်
roman: cit
lang: Carpathian Rusyn
word: ро́зум
roman: rózum
lang: Catalan
word: ment
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎣᏓᏅᏛ
roman: odanvdv
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 智力
roman: zhìlì
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 悟性
roman: wùxìng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 精神
roman: jīngshén
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 心智
roman: xīnzhì
lang: Chukchi
word: кувчемгъон
roman: kuvčemgʺon
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: âkili
lang: Coptic
word: ⲙⲉⲩⲓ
roman: meui
lang: Czech
word: mysl
lang: Czech
word: rozum
lang: Danish
word: sind
lang: Danish
word: sjæl
lang: Danish
word: indstilling
lang: Dutch
word: verstand
lang: Dutch
word: geest
lang: Dutch
word: psyche
lang: Dutch
word: denkvermogen
lang: Dutch
word: rede
lang: Esperanto
word: menso
lang: Estonian
word: mõistus
lang: Estonian
word: oid
lang: Estonian
word: aru
lang: Estonian
word: taip
lang: Estonian
word: järeldusvõime
lang: Finnish
word: mieli
lang: Finnish
word: järki
lang: Finnish
word: ymmärrys
lang: Finnish
word: pää
lang: French
word: esprit
lang: French
word: raison
lang: French
word: intelligence
lang: Friulian
word: ment
lang: Galician
word: mente
lang: Georgian
word: ჭკუა
roman: č̣ḳua
lang: Georgian
word: გონება
roman: goneba
lang: German
word: Verstand
lang: German
word: Geist
lang: German
word: Sinn
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌷𐌿𐌲𐍃
roman: hugs
lang: Gothic
word: 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌸𐌹
roman: fraþi
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌰𐌷𐌰
roman: aha
lang: Greek
word: νους
roman: nous
lang: Greek
word: διάνοια
roman: diánoia
lang: Greek
word: μυαλό
roman: myaló
lang: Ancient Greek
word: νοῦς
roman: noûs
lang: Ancient Greek
word: φρήν
roman: phrḗn
lang: Paraguayan Guarani
word: anãngua
lang: Paraguayan Guarani
word: apytu'ũ
lang: Gujarati
word: મન
roman: man
lang: Hawaiian
word: manaʻo
lang: Hawaiian
word: waihona
lang: Hawaiian
word: noʻonoʻa
lang: Hawaiian
word: naʻau
lang: Hebrew
word: רוּחַ
roman: rúakh
lang: Hebrew
word: מוֹח
lang: Hebrew
word: מֹחַ
roman: móakh
lang: Hebrew
word: שׂכל
roman: sekhel
lang: Higaonon
word: hunahuna
lang: Hindi
word: मन
roman: man
lang: Hindi
word: दिल
roman: dil
lang: Hindi
word: ज़ेहन
roman: zehan
lang: Hungarian
word: értelem
lang: Hungarian
word: elme
lang: Icelandic
word: hugur
lang: Ido
word: mento
lang: Igbo
word: uchè
lang: Ingrian
word: meeli
lang: Irish
word: intinn
lang: Irish
word: meabhair
lang: Middle Irish
word: menma
lang: Old Irish
word: menmae
lang: Italian
word: mente
lang: Japanese
word: 心
roman: kokoro
lang: Japanese
word: 精神
roman: seishin
lang: Japanese
word: 知性
roman: chisei
lang: Kazakh
word: ақыл
roman: aqyl
lang: Khmer
word: សតិ
roman: saʼteʼ
lang: Korean
word: 마음
roman: ma'eum
lang: Korean
word: 심성
roman: simseong
lang: Kumyk
word: гьакъыл
roman: haqıl
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: hiş
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: aqil
lang: Kyrgyz
word: акыл
roman: akıl
lang: Ladino
word: esprito
lang: Lao
word: ດວງຈິດ
roman: dūang chit
lang: Lao
word: ຈິດ
roman: chit
lang: Latgalian
word: pruots
lang: Latin
word: mens
lang: Latin
word: animus
lang: Latvian
word: prāts
lang: Lithuanian
word: protas
lang: Lithuanian
word: aumuo
lang: Lithuanian
word: omuo
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Verstand
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Geescht
lang: Macedonian
word: ум
roman: um
lang: Macedonian
word: разум
roman: razum
lang: Malagasy
word: saina
lang: Malay
word: akal
lang: Malayalam
word: മനസ്
roman: manasŭ
lang: Maltese
word: għaqal
lang: Māori
word: ihomatua
lang: Marathi
word: मन
roman: man
lang: Mongolian
word: ухаан
roman: uxaan
lang: Mongolian
word: оюун
roman: ojuun
lang: Nanai
word: мурун
roman: murun
lang: Navajo
word: bíniʼ
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: forstand
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: intellekt
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: hug
lang: Occitan
word: esperit
lang: Occitan
word: ment
lang: Church Slavic
word: оумъ
roman: umŭ
lang: Church Slavic
word: разоумъ
roman: razumŭ
lang: Old East Slavic
word: розумъ
roman: rozumŭ
lang: Old East Slavic
word: умъ
roman: umŭ
lang: Old English
word: mōd
lang: Old Norse
word: hugur
lang: Pali
word: sati
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: ум
roman: um
lang: Pashto
word: ذهن
roman: zehn
lang: Pashto
word: عقل
roman: 'áqəl
lang: Iranian Persian
word: ذِهْن
roman: zehn
lang: Iranian Persian
word: عَقْل
roman: aġl
lang: Middle Persian
word: mānag
lang: Pitjantjatjara
word: kata
lang: Polish
word: rozum
lang: Polish
word: umysł
lang: Polish
word: um
lang: Portuguese
word: mente
lang: Romagnol
word: mént
lang: Romanian
word: minte
lang: Russian
word: ум
roman: um
lang: Russian
word: ра́зум
roman: rázum
lang: Russian
word: рассу́док
roman: rassúdok
lang: Russian
word: интелле́кт
roman: intellékt
lang: Sanskrit
word: मनस्
roman: manas
lang: Sanskrit
word: चित्
roman: cit
lang: Sardinian
word: mente
lang: Sardinian
word: menti
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: aire
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: у̑м
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ра̏зӯм
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ȗm
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: rȁzūm
lang: Shor
word: ағыл
roman: ağıl
lang: Slovak
word: myseľ
lang: Slovak
word: rozum
lang: Slovak
word: myslenie
lang: Slovene
word: um
lang: Slovene
word: razum
lang: Spanish
word: mente
lang: Swedish
word: förstånd
lang: Swedish
word: intellekt
lang: Swedish
word: psyke
lang: Tajik
word: ақл
roman: aql
lang: Tajik
word: зеҳн
roman: zehn
lang: Tatar
word: зиһен
roman: zihen
lang: Tatar
word: акыл
roman: aqıl
lang: Telugu
word: మనసు
roman: manasu
lang: Telugu
word: దిమాక్
roman: dimāk
lang: Thai
word: จิตใจ
roman: jìt-jai
lang: Thai
word: จิต
roman: jìt
lang: Tibetan
word: སེམས
roman: sems
lang: Tocharian B
word: palsko
lang: Turkish
word: akıl
lang: Turkish
word: zihin
lang: Turkish
word: us
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: عقل
roman: ʼakl, ʼakıl
lang: Turkmen
word: akyl
lang: Ukrainian
word: ро́зум
roman: rózum
lang: Ukrainian
word: ум
roman: um
lang: Ukrainian
word: інтеле́кт
roman: intelékt
lang: Urdu
word: عَقْل
roman: 'aql
lang: Urdu
word: ذِہْن
roman: zihn
lang: Urdu
word: ذِہَن
roman: zihan
lang: Uyghur
word: ئەقىل
roman: eqil
lang: Uyghur
word: زېھىن
roman: zëhin
lang: Uzbek
word: aql
lang: Uzbek
word: fikr
lang: Uzbek
word: zehn
lang: Uzbek
word: ong
lang: Vietnamese
word: tinh thần
lang: Vietnamese
word: lòng
lang: Vietnamese
word: tâm trí
lang: Welsh
word: meddwl
lang: Yiddish
word: פֿאַרשטאַנד
roman: farshtand
lang: Yiddish
word: גײַסט
roman: gayst
lang: Yucatec Maya
word: tuukul
lang: Zulu
word: ingqondo
lang: Finnish
word: aikoa