pensée
Meanings
Noun
1. a thought (first attested 1176 in Chrétien de Troyes, Cligès, ed. A. Micha, 5246)
2. reflection, meditation, faculty of thinking (late 12th century)
3. worry, concern (late 12th century) (in the expression “être en pensée”)
4. the mind as the seat of thinking (c. 1200)
5. amorous attachment (c. 1200) (obsolete)
6. manner of thinking (c. 1215)
7. an idea coming up in one's mind (c. 1220 in Anseïs de Carthage, 332)
8. the guiding idea of a decision made or one's will (c. 1274 in Adenet Le Roi, Berte, 1644)
9. moral disposition (first quarter of 13th century)
10. an operation of the mind (since 1636)
11. idea expressed by an author in a literary or artistic work (since 1621)
12. thinking, worldview of an author
13. a pansy (plant) (c. 1460)
Examples102
Jetter ses premières pensées sur la toile.
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Travestir une pensée (“disguise an idea, represent it under a different form”).
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L'homme est Dieu par la pensée.
Man is God by his faculty for thought.
Tu es toujours dans mes pensées.
You're always on my mind.
C'est une belle pensée.
It's a nice thought.
Il s'est perdu dans ses pensées.
He lost himself in thought.