mention
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English mencioun, mention, from Old French mention, from Latin mentiōnem, accusative of mentiō (“a mention, calling to mind”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mention (plural mentions)
- A speaking or notice of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase make mention of.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 71:16:
- I will make mention of thy righteousness.
- 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
- And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention / Of me more must be heard of.
- (Internet, plural only) A social media feed, a list of replies or posts mentioning a person.
- 2012 November 20, Kavitha Rao, “The Problems With Policing Sexism on Twitter”, in The Atlantic:
- "I would like Twitter to put some kind of filters in place," suggests Prakash. "At present I can't see troll tweets if I block the user, but others who go into my 'mentions' can do so, and read the graphic abuse, which is disturbing."
- 2017 March 28, Jaleesa M. Jones, “Time to update your resumes: Chance the Rapper is hiring an intern”, in USA Today:
- In response to the flood of replies, Chance returned to Twitter several hours later — presumably, after his mentions calmed down — to request that users format their resumes as "creative decks, pitches or proposals" […] .
- 2018 December 3, Bari Weiss, Eve Peyser, “Can You Like the Person You Love to Hate?”, in The New York Times:
- I didn’t delete my account — yet! I know! I am full of shame! — but I did change the way I use it (no looking at my mentions; far less tweeting; aiming to highlight the work of people I like rather than criticize the work of those I don’t).
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]a speaking or notice of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner
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Verb
[edit]mention (third-person singular simple present mentions, present participle mentioning, simple past and past participle mentioned)
- To make a short reference to something.
- 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
- Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. […] Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.
- (philosophy, linguistics) To utter a word or expression in order to refer to the expression itself, as opposed to its usual referent.
- 2006, Tony Evans, The Transforming Word: Discovering the Power and Provision of the Bible, Moody Publishers, →ISBN, page 140:
- I can illustrate this by mentioning the word lead. Now you have no way of knowing for sure which meaning I have in mind until I give it some context by using it in a sentence.
- 2009, Lieven Vandelanotte, Speech and Thought Representation in English: A Cognitive-functional Approach, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 124:
- If the verbatimness view derives from the popular notion that DST repeats 'the actual words spoken', a second line of thought takes its cue from Quine's (1940: 23–26, 1960: 146–156) philosophical distinction between words which are “used” vs. words which are merely “mentioned”.
- 2013, Richard Hanley, South Park and Philosophy: Bigger, Longer, and More Penetrating, Open Court, →ISBN:
- If I said rightly, “'Niggers' is a seven letter word,” I would be mentioning the word, and when we write it, we use mention-quotes for this purpose (speech typically lacks quotes, except for the occasional air-quotes). If I said, rightly or wrongly, “Niggers are good athletes,” then I would be using “niggers,” not merely mentioning it.
Synonyms
[edit](make a short reference to something): See Thesaurus:mention
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]make a short reference to something
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Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin mentiōnem.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mention f (plural mentions)
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mention”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin mentiō, mentionis.
Noun
[edit]mention oblique singular, f (oblique plural mentions, nominative singular mention, nominative plural mentions)
- mention (act of mentioning)
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