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The French word for thought is
pensée





thought

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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