The French word for thought is
pensée

Plural
The plural of pensée is pensées.French Definition
thought | |
1. n. Idée, pensée. | |
2. n. Pensée (en général), fait de penser. | |
3. n. Façon de penser associée à un groupe humain. | |
4. v. Prétérit de to think. | |
5. v. Participe passé de to think. |
Translations for thought and their definitions
idée | ![]() | ||
1. n-f. idea | |||
2. n-f. , translation=All children are born atheists; they have no idea of God. Are they then criminal on account of their ignorance? |
pensée | ![]() | ||
1. Participle. feminine singular of pensé | |||
2. n-f. a thought (first attested 1176 in Chrétien de Troyes, Cligès, ed. A. Micha, 5246) | |||
3. n-f. reflection, meditation, faculty of thinking (late 12th century) | |||
4. n-f. (in the expression “être en pensée”) worry, concern (late 12th century) | |||
5. n-f. the mind as the seat of thinking (c. 1200) | |||
6. n-f. (obsolete) amorous attachment (c. 1200) | |||
7. n-f. manner of thinking (c. 1215) | |||
8. n-f. an idea coming up in one's mind (c. 1220 in Anseïs de Carthage, 332) | |||
9. n-f. the guiding idea of a decision made or one's will (c. 1274 in Adenet Le Roi, Berte, 1644) | |||
10. n-f. moral disposition (first quarter of 13th century) | |||
11. n-f. an operation of the mind (since 1636) | |||
12. n-f. idea expressed by an author in a literary or artistic work (since 1621) | |||
13. n-f. thinking, worldview of an author | |||
Travestir la pensée d'un auteur. | |||
14. n-f. a pansy (plant) (c. 1460) |
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