See nous in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for nous meaning in English (3.7kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*(s)neh₁-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "νοῦς",
"4": ""
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek νοῦς (noûs)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "νόος",
"3": "",
"4": "mind"
},
"expansion": "νόος (nóos, “mind”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Ancient Greek νοῦς (noûs) or νόος (nóos, “mind”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "nous (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "paranoia"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "noesis"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "noogenesis"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "noology"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "noosphere"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "nootropic"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Philosophy",
"orig": "en:Philosophy",
"parents": [
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1900, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, On the Disastrous Spread of Aestheticism in all Classes",
"text": "I feel the will to roam, to learn\nBy test, experience, nous,\nThat fire is hot and ocean deep,\nAnd wolves carnivorous.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The mind or intellect, reason, both rational and emotional"
],
"id": "en-nous-en-noun-P8~gQysI",
"links": [
[
"philosophy",
"philosophy"
],
[
"mind",
"mind"
],
[
"reason",
"reason"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(philosophy) The mind or intellect, reason, both rational and emotional"
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"philosophy",
"sciences"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "50 33 17",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razum",
"sense": "reason in philosophy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "разум"
},
{
"_dis1": "50 33 17",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "reason in philosophy",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "nous"
},
{
"_dis1": "50 33 17",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "reason in philosophy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nous"
},
{
"_dis1": "50 33 17",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "reason in philosophy",
"word": "Nous"
},
{
"_dis1": "50 33 17",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "reason in philosophy",
"word": "nous"
},
{
"_dis1": "50 33 17",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "reason in philosophy",
"word": "förnuft"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "18 71 11",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In Neoplatonism, the divine reason, regarded as first divine emanation."
],
"id": "en-nous-en-noun-42Dhnv5T",
"links": [
[
"Neoplatonism",
"Neoplatonism"
],
[
"divine",
"divine"
],
[
"emanation",
"emanation"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Uniform edition, Edward Arnold, Part I, I, page 19",
"text": "There is nothing original in absent-mindedness. True originally lies elsewhere. Really, the lower classes have no nous.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Common sense; practical intelligence."
],
"id": "en-nous-en-noun-psrqbocJ",
"links": [
[
"Common sense",
"common sense"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/naʊs/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-aʊs"
},
{
"ipa": "/nuːs/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-nous.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/28/En-us-nous.ogg/En-us-nous.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/En-us-nous.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"enpr": "nous"
},
{
"enpr": "noo͞s"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "noos"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"nous"
],
"word": "nous"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Ancient Greek",
"English terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)neh₁-",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Rhymes:English/aʊs",
"Rhymes:English/aʊs/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*(s)neh₁-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "grc",
"3": "νοῦς",
"4": ""
},
"expansion": "Ancient Greek νοῦς (noûs)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "grc",
"2": "νόος",
"3": "",
"4": "mind"
},
"expansion": "νόος (nóos, “mind”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Ancient Greek νοῦς (noûs) or νόος (nóos, “mind”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "nous (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "paranoia"
},
{
"word": "noesis"
},
{
"word": "noogenesis"
},
{
"word": "noology"
},
{
"word": "noosphere"
},
{
"word": "nootropic"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Philosophy"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1900, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, On the Disastrous Spread of Aestheticism in all Classes",
"text": "I feel the will to roam, to learn\nBy test, experience, nous,\nThat fire is hot and ocean deep,\nAnd wolves carnivorous.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"The mind or intellect, reason, both rational and emotional"
],
"links": [
[
"philosophy",
"philosophy"
],
[
"mind",
"mind"
],
[
"reason",
"reason"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(philosophy) The mind or intellect, reason, both rational and emotional"
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"philosophy",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"In Neoplatonism, the divine reason, regarded as first divine emanation."
],
"links": [
[
"Neoplatonism",
"Neoplatonism"
],
[
"divine",
"divine"
],
[
"emanation",
"emanation"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Uniform edition, Edward Arnold, Part I, I, page 19",
"text": "There is nothing original in absent-mindedness. True originally lies elsewhere. Really, the lower classes have no nous.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Common sense; practical intelligence."
],
"links": [
[
"Common sense",
"common sense"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/naʊs/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-aʊs"
},
{
"ipa": "/nuːs/",
"tags": [
"US"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-nous.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/28/En-us-nous.ogg/En-us-nous.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/En-us-nous.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
},
{
"enpr": "nous"
},
{
"enpr": "noo͞s"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "noos"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "razum",
"sense": "reason in philosophy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "разум"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "reason in philosophy",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "nous"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "reason in philosophy",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nous"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "reason in philosophy",
"word": "Nous"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "reason in philosophy",
"word": "nous"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "reason in philosophy",
"word": "förnuft"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"nous"
],
"word": "nous"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.