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Meaning of think of in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Verb
    1. Definitions
  1. Pronunciation

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  1. Verb

    think of

    Definitions

    1. keep in mind for attention or consideration

    Examples

    • « Remember the Alamo »
    • « Remember to call your mother every day! »
    • « Think of the starving children in India! »

    Antonyms

    • forget
    • bury

    Derived terms

    • anamnesis
    • recollection
    • remembrance
  2. 2. look on as or consider

    Examples

    • « she looked on this affair as a joke »
    • « He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician »
    • « He is reputed to be intelligent »

    Derived terms

    • report
    • reputation
    • repute
  3. 3. take into consideration, have in view

    Examples

    • « He entertained the notion of moving to South America »
  4. 4. intend to refer to

    Examples

    • « I'm thinking of good food when I talk about France »
    • « Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip! »
  5. 5. devise or invent

    Examples

    • « He thought up a plan to get rich quickly »
    • « no-one had ever thought of such a clever piece of software »

    Derived terms

    • concoction
  6. 6. choose in one's mind

    Examples

    • « Think of any integer between 1 and 25 »

Famous quotes

  • « Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. »
    John Ruskin
  • « Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us. »
    Thomas Paine
  • « But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out! »
    Anna Neagle
  • « I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil. »
    Sylvester Stallone
  • « I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. »
    Albert Einstein

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