mind

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   knowledge and intellectual ability

   I read to improve my mind.

2. 2
   noun

   attention or notice

   Don't pay them any mind.

3. 3
   noun

   recall or remembrance

   it came to mind

4. 4
   noun

   an important intellectual

   the great minds of the 17th century

5. 5
   noun

   The capability for rational thought.

   Despite advancing age, his mind was still as sharp as ever.

6. 6
   noun

   The ability to be aware of things.

   There was no doubt in his mind that they would win.

7. 7
   noun

   The ability to remember things.

   My mind just went blank.

8. 8
   noun

   The ability to focus the thoughts.

   I can’t keep my mind on what I’m doing.

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”), Swedish minne (…