thought – English noun declension

English noun forms of thought

Noun: thought
Singularthought
Pluralthoughts

Sample Sentences

  • 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.
  • I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom, and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
  • The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it’s unfamiliar territory. [a. 1983, Paul Fix (attributed quote)]
  • What has been especially striking in recent decades, however, is the rise of new outlooks challenging the very idea of a nucleated (if evasive) inner personal identity. … We don't think our thoughts, they think us; we are but the bearers of discourses, our selves are discursive constructs. Within such frames of analysis, any notion of the ascent of selfhood is but idle teleological myth, a humanist hagiography. [2003, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Ch.1, at p.14, 15]
  • Traditional eastern thought differs markedly from that of the west.
  • Which of you by taking thought, can adde one cubite vnto his ſtature? [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 6:27:]
  • After much thought, I have decided to stay.
  • 'Bide the night at Heriotside,' says he. 'It's a thought out of your way, but it's a comfortable bit.' [1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *teng-der.
3. Proto-Germanic *þankijaną
4. Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz
5. Proto-West Germanic *þą̄ht
6. Old English þōht
7. Middle English thought
8. English thought
9. From Middle English thought, ithoȝt, from Old English þōht, ġeþōht, from Proto-West Germanic *þą̄ht, from Proto-Germanic *þanhtaz, *gaþanhtą (“thought”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think”). Cognate with Scots thocht (“thought”), Saterland Frisian Toacht (“thought”), West Frisian dacht (“attention, regard, thought”), Dutch gedachte (“thought”), German Andacht (“reverence, devotion, prayer”), Icelandic þóttur (“thought”). Related to thank, think. See: Middle English Nouns 'thought', Dutch Nouns 'gedachte', German Nouns 'Andacht', Icelandic Nouns 'þóttur'.