thought
pronunciation
How to pronounce thought in British English:
UK [θɔːt]
How to pronounce thought in American English:
US [θɔːt]
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- Noun:
- the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
- the process of thinking (especially thinking carefully)
- the organized beliefs of a period or group or individual
- a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty
Word Origin
- thought
- thought: [OE] Thought comes from a prehistoric Germanic noun *gathangkht-, which was formed from the same base as produced English think. Its modern Germanic relatives include German gedächtnis ‘memory’ and Dutch gedachte ‘thought’.=> thank, think
- thought (n.)
- Old English þoht, geþoht "process of thinking, a thought; compassion," from stem of þencan "to conceive of in the mind, consider" (see think). Cognate with the second element in German Gedächtnis "memory," Andacht "attention, devotion," Bedacht "consideration, deliberation." Second thought "later consideration" is recorded from 1640s. Thought-crime is from "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (1949); thought police is attested from 1945, originally in reference to war-time Japanese Special Higher Police (Tokubetsu Koto Keisatsu).
Example
- 1. Or an old thought habit kicks in .
- 2. This thought is poison to creating art .
- 3. I thought we could do better .
- 4. Then I thought of my own family .
- 5. I thought something might be wrong .