Etymology

Inherited from Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#MENTIONCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#MENTION mencioun, mention, from Old FrenchCategory:English terms derived from Old French#MENTION mention, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#MENTION mentiōnem, accusative of mentiō (“a mention, calling to mind”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛnʃən/Category:English 2-syllable words#MENTIONCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#MENTION
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛnʃn̩/Category:English 2-syllable words#MENTIONCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#MENTION

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: men‧tion
• Rhymes: -ɛnʃənCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛnʃən#MENTIONCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛnʃən/2 syllables#MENTION

Noun

mention (countable and uncountable, plural mentions)Category:English lemmas#MENTIONCategory:English nouns#MENTIONCategory:English uncountable nouns#MENTIONCategory:English countable nouns#MENTIONCategory:English countable nouns#MENTIONCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MENTIONCategory:Pages with entries#MENTIONCategory:Pages with 3 entries#MENTION

1. A speaking or noticing of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 71:16:

     I will make mention of thy righteousness.

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   • 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention / Of me more must be heard of.

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2. (InternetCategory:en:Internet#MENTION, plural onlyCategory:English pluralia tantum#MENTION) A social media feed, a list of replies or posts mentioning a person.
   • 2012 November 20, Kavitha Rao, “The Problems With Policing Sexism on Twitter”, in The Atlantic:

     "I would like Twitter to put some kind of filters in place," suggests Prakash. "At present I can't see troll tweets if I block the user, but others who go into my 'mentions' can do so, and read the graphic abuse, which is disturbing."

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   • 2017 March 28, Jaleesa M. Jones, “Time to update your resumes: Chance the Rapper is hiring an intern”, in USA Today:

     In response to the flood of replies, Chance returned to Twitter several hours later — presumably, after his mentions calmed down — to request that users format their resumes as "creative decks, pitches or proposals" […] .

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   • 2018 December 3, Bari Weiss, Eve Peyser, “Can You Like the Person You Love to Hate?”, in The New York Times:

     I didn’t delete my account — yet! I know! I am full of shame! — but I did change the way I use it (no looking at my mentions; far less tweeting; aiming to highlight the work of people I like rather than criticize the work of those I don’t).

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Verb

mention (third-person singular simple present mentions, present participle mentioning, simple past and past participle mentioned)Category:English lemmas#MENTIONCategory:English verbs#MENTIONCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#MENTIONCategory:Pages with entries#MENTIONCategory:Pages with 3 entries#MENTION

1. To make a short verbal 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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2. (philosophyCategory:en:Philosophy#MENTION, linguisticsCategory:en:Linguistics#MENTION) To utter a 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.

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   • 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”.

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   • 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.

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Anagrams

• nontime, omentin

Etymology

Borrowed from LatinCategory:French terms borrowed from Latin#MENTIONCategory:French terms derived from Latin#MENTION mentiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑ̃.sjɔ̃/Category:French 2-syllable words#MENTIONCategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#MENTION

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

mention f (plural mentions)Category:French lemmas#MENTIONCategory:French nouns#MENTIONCategory:French countable nouns#MENTIONCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#MENTIONCategory:French feminine nouns#MENTIONCategory:Pages with entries#MENTIONCategory:Pages with 3 entries#MENTION

1. mention (act of mentioning)
2. (educationCategory:fr:Education#MENTION) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.Category:Requests for definitions in French entries#MENTION
3. slogan

Further reading

• “mention”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Alternative forms

• mencion, mension

Etymology

Borrowed from LatinCategory:Old French terms derived from Latin#MENTION mentiōnis, mentiōnisCategory:Old French undefined derivations#MENTION.

Noun

mention oblique singular, f (oblique plural mentions, nominative singular mention, nominative plural mentions)Category:Old French lemmas#MENTIONCategory:Old French nouns#MENTIONCategory:Old French feminine nouns#MENTIONCategory:Old French entries with incorrect language header#MENTIONCategory:Old French feminine nouns#MENTIONCategory:Pages with entries#MENTIONCategory:Pages with 3 entries#MENTION

1. mention (act of mentioning)

See also

• mentevoir