thought
/θoːt/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.59 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A representation created in the mind without the use of one's faculties of vision, sound, smell, touch, or taste; an instance of thinking.
Countable
noun
The operation by which mental activity arise or are manipulated; the process of thinking; the agency by which thinking is accomplished.
Uncountable
verb
simple past and past participle of think
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /θoːt/
- British English: /θɔːt/