Mind Definition

mīnd
minds
noun
minds
Memory; recollection or remembrance.
Her name slips my mind.
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That which thinks, perceives, feels, wills, etc.; seat or subject of consciousness.
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A person or group that embodies certain mental qualities.
The medical mind; the public mind.
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What one thinks; opinion.
Speak your mind.
Webster's New World
The thinking and perceiving part of consciousness; intellect or intelligence.
Webster's New World
verb
minds
To pay attention; give heed.
Webster's New World
To direct one's mind to.
Webster's New World
To be obedient.
Webster's New World
To be careful; watch out.
Webster's New World
To heed in order to obey.
The children minded their babysitter.
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idiom
a mind of (one's) own
  • A capacity or inclination to think or act independently:

    a reporter with a mind of her own.

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a mind of its own
  • A tendency to be unresponsive to human will:

    The car had a mind of its own and seemed to start only when it felt like it.

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be of one mind
  • To be in agreement about something.
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be of two minds
  • To have mixed feelings or be undecided about something.
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bring
  • To remember (something):

    tried to bring to mind their happy times together.

  • To cause (something) to be remembered or thought of; evoke:
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Other Word Forms of Mind

Noun

Singular:
mind
Plural:
minds

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Origin of Mind

  • From Middle English minde, munde, ȝemunde, from Old English mynd, Ä¡emynd (“memory, remembrance; memorial, record; act of commemoration; thought, purpose; consciousness, mind, intellect"), from Proto-Germanic *mundiz, *gamundiz (“memory, remembrance"), from Proto-Indo-European *méntis (“thought"), from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think"). Cognate with Old High German gimunt (“mind, memory"), Danish minde (“memory"), Icelandic minni (“memory, recall, recollection"), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍃 (munds, “memory, mind"), Old English myntan (“to mean, intend, purpose, determine, resolve"), Latin mÄ“ns (“mind, reason"), Albanian mënd (“mind, reason"). More at mint.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English minde from Old English gemynd men-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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