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Etymology[edit]
From Old French ponderer (“to weigh, balance, ponder”) (French pondérer), from Latin ponderare (“to weigh, ponder, in Medieval Latin also to load”), from pondus (“weight”), from pendere (“to weigh”); see pendent and pound.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
ponder (third-person singular simple present ponders, present participle pondering, simple past and past participle pondered)
- to wonder, think of deeply
- to consider (something) carefully and thoroughly; to chew over, mull over
- I have spent days pondering the meaning of life.
- Bible, Proverbs iv. 26
- Ponder the path of thy feet.
- (obsolete) to weigh
Synonyms[edit]
- chew over
- mull over
- See also Thesaurus:ponder
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to think deeply
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to consider carefully
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Noun[edit]
ponder (plural ponders)
- (colloquial) A period of deep thought.
- I lit my pipe and had a ponder about it, but reached no definite conclusion.
Further reading[edit]
- ponder in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- ponder in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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