sense – English noun declension

English noun forms of sense

Noun: sense
Singularsense
Pluralsenses

Sample Sentences

  • Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep. [c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:]
  • What surmounts the reach / Of human sense I shall delineate. [1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • Sight, hearing, and touch have been well explored, but the sense of smell has remained elusive, due in large measure to a lack of basic information. [1987 October, Avery N. Gilbert and Charles J. Wysocki, “Results of the Smell Survey”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 514:]
  • a sense of security
  • this Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover (The New Arcadia) [a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:]
  • high disdain from sense of injured merit [1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
  • The days have vanish’d, tone and tint,
  • ⁠And yet perhaps the hoarding sense
  • ⁠Gives out at times (he knows not whence)
  • A little flash, a mystic hint; […] [1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 66:]
  • Where a college administration does not come forward and say that gay people have a right to be here, there is a sense among students that it is acceptable to harass and intimidate lesbian and gay members of that community. [1990 December 16, Laura Briggs, quoting Robert Weinerman, “Gay Students Fight 'Little War' At Mass. School”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 15:]
  • It’s common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.
  • some People so Harden'd in Wickedness, as to have No Sense at all of the most Friendly Offices, or the Highest Benefits. [1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:]
  • You don’t make any sense.
  • That just don't make a licka sense to me.
  • I think ’twas in another sense. [c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:]
  • the various senses of the word “car” (e.g., motor car, elevator car, railcar)
  • In this sense it was possible to speak of 'scientific' of 'Marxist' ideology, which Marx and Engels, given their use of the term, could never have done. [1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 154:]
  • A keen musical sense

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
3. Proto-Italic *sentiō
4. Latin sentiō
5. Proto-Indo-European *-tus
6. Proto-Italic *-tus
7. Latin -tus
8. Latin sēnsusbor.
9. Proto-Germanic *sinnaz
10. Frankish *sinnbor.
11. Vulgar Latin *sennus
12. Old French sensbor.
13. Middle English sense
14. English sense
15. From Middle English sense, from Old French sens, sen, san (“sense, perception, direction”); partly from Latin sēnsus (“sensation, feeling, meaning”), from sentiō (“feel, perceive”); partly of Germanic origin (whence also Occitan sen, Italian senno), from Vulgar Latin *sennus (“sense, reason, way”), from Frankish *sinn ("reason, judgement, mental faculty, way, direction"; whence also Dutch zin, German Sinn, Swedish sinne, Norwegian sinn). Both Latin and Germanic from Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to feel”). See: Middle English Nouns 'sense', Latin Nouns 'sēnsus', Italian Nouns 'senno', Dutch Nouns 'zin', German Nouns 'Sinn', Swedish Nouns 'sinne'.