thought
/θɔːt/ · thought
noun
- A mental form or idea created in the mind, not perceived through the senses. The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- The process or operation by which mental forms arise or are manipulated; the act of thinking. Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom, and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
- A way of thinking associated with a particular group, nation, or region. Traditional eastern thought differs markedly from that of the west.
verb
- To ponder or consider something in one's mind. Idly, the detective thought what his next move should be.
- To communicate to oneself in one's mind, often in an attempt to solve a problem. I thought for three hours about the problem and still couldn’t find the solution.
- To conceive of something or someone, usually followed by of; infrequently by on. I tend to think of her as rather ugly.
- To seem or appear. It seemed that the answer was obvious, but it was not.
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Did you know? The word "thought" is both a noun and a verb in modern English, but its dual usage dates back to Old English, where the same form served as the past participle of "think" and as a noun meaning an idea.