mention
English
Etymology
From Old French mention, from Latin mentiō, mentionis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɛnʃən/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛnʃən
- Hyphenation: men‧tion
Noun
mention (plural mentions)
- A speaking or notice of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase make mention of.
- Bible, Psalms lxxi. 16
- I will make mention of thy righteousness.
- Shakespeare
- And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention / Of me more must be heard of.
- Bible, Psalms lxxi. 16
Translations
a speaking or notice of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner
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Verb
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”.
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- (philosophy, linguistics) To utter an 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.
- 2006, Tony Evans, The Transforming Word: Discovering the Power and Provision of the Bible, Moody Publishers →ISBN, page 140
Synonyms
(make a short reference to something): See Thesaurus:mention
Derived terms
Translations
mention — see cover
make a short reference to something
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French
Pronunciation
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Related terms
Further reading
- “mention” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Old French
Alternative forms
- mencion
- mension
Noun
mention f (oblique plural mentions, nominative singular mention, nominative plural mentions)
- mention (act of mentioning)
See also
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