thought
/θɔt/ noun A2- A representation created in the mind without the use of one's faculties of vision, sound, smell, touch, or taste; an instance of thinking. · 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.
- The operation by which mental activity arise or are manipulated; the process of thinking; the agency by which thinking is accomplished. · 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 group, nation, region or idea). · school of thought· Traditional eastern thought differs markedly from that of the west.
- The careful consideration of multiple factors; deliberation. · After much thought, I have decided to stay.
- A very small amount, distance, etc.; a whit or jot.
Plural thoughts
From the library
As I before said, I thought the whole thing was a joke, nothing more.
“‘I thought you were at Smyrna.’—‘I was; but am now back again.’
“Except,” thought Elizabeth, “when she goes to Ramsgate.”
Elizabeth thought this was going pretty far; and she listened with increasing astonishment as the housekeeper added, “I have never had a cross word from him in my life, and I have known him ever since he was four years old.”
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