mention
verbEtymology Inherited from Middle English mencioun, mention, from Old French mention, from Latin mentiōnem, accusative of mentiō (“a mention, calling to mind”).
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To make mention of; to speak of; to refer to; to name; to specify
- He happened to mention your name to me.
- fine mantles of Irish frieze are mentioned in a list of goods exported from England to Pope Urban VI1911, Osbert J. R. Howarth et al, “Ireland”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, volume 14, page 750:
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- It has already been mentioned that the Teutonic peoples of this period seem to have been fully conscious of their common origin.1911, “Teutonic Peoples”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, volume 26, page 680:
- 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”.2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Philosophy, Sciences To utter a word or expression in order to refer to the expression itself, as opposed to its usual referent.
- 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.2006, Tony Evans, The Transforming Word: Discovering the Power and Provision of the Bible, Moody Publishers, →ISBN, page 140:
- 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”.2009, Lieven Vandelanotte, Speech and Thought Representation in English: A Cognitive-functional Approach, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 124:
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- 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.2013, Richard Hanley, South Park and Philosophy: Bigger, Longer, and More Penetrating, Open Court, →ISBN:
- Antonyms
- bespeech, enlarge oneself, orate, speechify
- Derived terms
- @mention, come to mention it, don't mention it, intermention, mentionee, mentioner, more than one cares to mention, not to mention, now that you mention it, now you mention it, remention, unmention
- Related terms
- allude
- Hypernyms
- speak