think

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To have an opinion or belief about something.

   I think this is the best film of the year.

2. 2
   verb

   To use your mind to consider or reason about something.

   I have been thinking all day and still cannot decide.

3. 3
   verb

   To form an idea or picture in your mind; to imagine.

   Just think how nice a holiday would be right now.

4. 4
   noun

   An act of thinking carefully about something.

   Let me have a think about it before I answer.

Multiword verbs with think

• think of Prepositional verb A1

  to bring an idea or possibility to mind

• think over Phrasal verb A1

  to consider something carefully before deciding

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Simplified etymology

Think is an Old English word related to the Old English words thank and thought.

From Middle English thinken, thynken, thenken, thenchen, from Old English þenċan, from Proto-West Germanic *þankijan, from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną (“to think”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think, feel, know”). Cognate with Scots think, thynk (“to think”), North Frisian teenk, taanke, tanke, tånke (“to think”), Saterland Frisian toanke (“to think”), West Frisian tinke (“to think”), Dutch denken, dinken (“to think”), Afrikaans dink (“to think”), Low German denken, dinken (“to think”), German denken (“to think”), Danish tænke (“to think”), Swedish tänka (“to think”), Norwegian Bokmål t…

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