mind – English noun declension

English noun forms of mind

Noun: mind
Singularmind
Pluralminds

Sample Sentences

  • Despite advancing age, his mind was still as sharp as ever.
  • And ſure, although it was invented to eaſe his mynde of griefe, there be a number of caveats therein to forewarne other young gentlemen to foreſtand with good government their folowing yl fortunes; […] [1576, George Whetstone, “The Ortchard of Repentance: […]”, in The Rocke of Regard, […], London: […] [H. Middleton] for Robert Waley, →OCLC; republished in J[ohn] P[ayne] Collier, editor, The Rocke of Regard, […] (Illustrations of Early English Poetry; vol. 2, no. 2), London: Privately printed, [1867?], →OCLC, page 291:]
  • “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.” [1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • There was no doubt in his mind that they would win.
  • My mind just went blank.
  • I can’t keep my mind on what I’m doing.
  • He was one of history’s greatest minds.
  • I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, […] [1956, Allen Ginsberg, “Howl”, in Howl and Other Poems (Pocket Poets Series), City Lights Books, →OCLC, page 9:]
  • That's far from the promised land set out in the Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail, that the railways would have a guiding mind that would be in control of the industry's finances. Businesses have what is called a profit and loss account, showing both revenue and costs, but the current situation means that the two sides of the system are in different hands - and neither is (as yet) in the hands of a 'guiding mind'. [2022 November 16, Christian Wolmar, “Can Merriman use his rail knowledge to make a difference?”, in RAIL, number 970, page 45:]
  • Who knows what really goes through the criminal mind?
  • He changed his mind after hearing the speech.
  • She had a mind to go to Paris.
  • I have half a mind to do it myself.
  • I am of a mind to listen.
  • I fortuned to come in,
  • Thys rebell to behold,
  • Whereof I hym controld;
  • But he sayde that he wolde
  • Agaynst my mynde and wyll
  • In my church hawke styll. [c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 64, lines 94–99:]
  • Although Miss Pross, through her long association with a French family, might have known as much of their language as of her own, if she had had a mind, she had no mind in that direction […] So her manner of marketing was to plump a noun-substantive at the head of a shopkeeper without any introduction in the nature of an article […] [1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:]
  • I, ______ being of sound mind and body, do hereby[…]
  • You are losing your mind.
  • The nature of the mind is a major topic in philosophy.
  • Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it. [1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations:]
  • The mind is that part of our being which thinks and wills, remembers and reasons; we know nothing of it except from these functions. [1854, Samuel Knaggs, Unsoundness of Mind Considered in Relation to the Question of Responsibility for Criminal Acts, page 19:]
  • Thus they dwelled for nearly a year, and in that time Robin Hood often turned over in his mind many means of making an even score with the Sheriff. [1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:]
  • […] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • a month's [or monthly] mind; a year's mind
  • They are the “tars” who give mind to the spreading sail, and their bold courage is the pabulum which will preserve our sea-girt isle in its vernal green to furthest posterity. [1849, Eliza Cook, Eliza Cook’s Journal,p.119, volume 1:]
  • Then he, having mind of Beelzebub, the god of flies, fled without a halt homewards; but, falling in the coo's loan, broke two ribs and a collar bone, the whilk misfortune was much blessed to his soul. [1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:]
  • If you get a “trolling” comment, delete it, do not respond to it, and move forward immediately without paying any further mind. [2014, Jolie O'Dell, Blogging for Photographers, page 66:]

Etymology

1. 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”).
2. 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”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish minne (“memory”), Faroese and Icelandic minni (“memory, recall, recollection”), Latin mēns (“mind, reason”), Sanskrit मनस् (mánas), Ancient Greek μένος (ménos), Albanian mënd (“mind, reason”). Related to mantra. Compare also Old English myntan (“to mean, intend, purpose, determine, resolve”). More at mint. See: Middle English Nouns 'minde', Old Norse Nouns 'mynd', Gothic Nouns '𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍃', Danish Nouns 'minde', Latin Nouns 'mēns', Ancient Greek Nouns 'μένος', Old English Nouns 'myntan'.

Verbs referencing "mind"

Latin Nouns mens.