mention
/ˈmɛnʃən/ verb B1- To make mention of; to speak of; to refer to; to name; to specify · He happened to mention your name to me.
- To utter a word or expression in order to refer to the expression itself, as opposed to its usual referent.
He/she/it mentions · Past mentioned · Past participle mentioned · -ing form mentioning
Verb forms
- Base form
- mention
- He/she/it
- mentions
- Past
- mentioned
- Past participle
- mentioned
- -ing form
- mentioning
From the library
“I wish I hadn’t mentioned Dinah!” she said to herself in a melancholy tone.
“You are old,” said the youth, “as I mentioned before,
And mentioned me to him:
He could see that she was vastly impressed by this vague talk, so he endorsed his pose by random insinuations concerning great wealth, and mentioned familiarly a few names that are handled reverently by the proletariat.
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