Nous

Definition: Nous

Nous

Noun

1. (British) common sense; "she has great social nous".

2. That which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason; "his mind wandered"; "I couldn't get his words out of my head".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "nous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Nous

Change

Phrase: "a change came o'er the spirit of my dream"; nous avons change tout cela; tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis; non sum qualis eram; casaque tourner; corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur; in statu quo ante bellum; "still ending and beginning still"; vox audita perit littera scripta manet.

Concealment

In confidence, in strict confidence, in strictest confidence; confidentially; Adjective: between ourselves, between you and me; between you and me and the bedpost; entre nous, inter nos, under the seal of secrecy; a couvert.

Expectation

Phrase: we shall see; nous verrons; "expectation whirls me round"; the light at the end of the tunnel.

Intelligence Wisdom

Noun: intelligence, capacity, comprehension, understanding; cuteness, sabe , savvy ; intellect; nous, parts, sagacity, mother wit, wit, esprit, gumption, quick parts, grasp of intellect; acuteness; Adjective: acumen, subtlety, penetration, perspicacy, perspicacity; discernment, due sense of, good judgment; discrimination; cunning; refinement; (taste).

Selfishness

Phrase: apres nous le deluge.

Wonder

Interjection: lo, lo and behold! O! heyday! halloo! what! indeed! really! surely! humph! hem! good lack, good heavens, gad so! welladay! dear me! only think! lackadaisy! my stars, my goodness! gracious goodness! goodness gracious! mercy on us! heavens and earth! God bless me! bless us, bless my heart! odzookens! O gemini! adzooks! hoity-toity! strong! Heaven save the mark, bless the mark! can such things be! zounds! 'sdeath! what on earth, what in the world! who would have thought it!; (inexpectation); you don't say so! You're kidding!. No kidding? what do you say to that! nous verrons! how now! where am I?

Crosswords: Nous

French (for us, ourselves, to us, us, we), French Canadian (we), Latin (intelligence), Romanian (nous).

Cardinal À nous quatre (1974)

C'est chez nous Chez nous (1972)

Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble (1972)

À nous deux France (1970)

Nous n'irons plus au bois (1970)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Nous and Logos: Philosophical Foundations of Hannah Arendt's Political Theory (Political Theory and Political Philosophy) (reference)

• Nous Les Jeunes (reference)

• Nous Les Jeunes: Foreign Language French Level 2 (reference)

• Nous Tous (reference)

• Nous Vous/French 2 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Chez Nous - Student Ed (reference)

• Entre Nous : The European Magazine For Reproductive And Sexual Health (reference)

• Nous (reference)

• Nous Deux (reference)

• Nous Voulons Lire (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• A Nous La Liberte - Criterion Collection (reference)

• Entre Nous (reference)

• A Nous La Liberte (reference)

• The Last Days of Chez Nous (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Nous Ka Woule (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Caporal! nous sommes fe... / Ch. Nanteuil. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Nous y voil� . / Pigal. Lith. de Langlumé. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Demain, il y aura du tabac et des cigarettes; un peu de patience, fumeurs, et restreignons - nous pour aujourd'hui. Credit: Library of Congress.

Emprunt National 1918. Société Générale, pour nous rendre entiére la douce terre de France. Credit: Library of Congress.

Emprunt National 1918. Société Générale, pour nous rendre entiére la douce terre de France. Credit: Library of Congress.

Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris. Emprunt National 1918. Pour hâter la victoire, et pour nous revoir bient't, souscrivez!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Nous irons jusqu'au bout = We will go all the way. Credit: Library of Congress.

Nous condamnons la torture. Credit: Library of Congress.

Oui a la France du bon sens : pour la France que nous aimons, Jacques Chirac et le RPR. Credit: Library of Congress.

La vie est a nous : avec Le Mouvement de la jeunesse socialiste. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Nous acheterons de bien belles choses En nous promenant le long des faubourgs

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "nous": apres nous le deluge ♦ nous avons change tout cela ♦ nous verrons. Additional references.

Albanian

mend (ballast, brain, brains, esprit, headpiece, imagination, intention, memory, mind, reason, savvy, wit), intelekt (brains, head, headpiece, intellect, intelligence, mind), arsye (account, argument, cause, consideration, justice, justification, matter, motivation, motive, occasion, place, plea, reason, sense, spring, why), arësye (account, argument, cause, consideration, justice, justification, matter, motivation, motive, occasion, place, plea, reason, sense, spring, why). (various references)

Arabic 

‏العقل الفياض, ‏العقل (mind). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ум (brain, head, headpiece, intellect, intelligence, mentality, mind, pericranium, wit), разсъдък (judgement, mentality, mind), разум (discrimination, mind, rationality, understanding, wit), здрав разум (common sense, gumption, reason, sanity, sense), акъл (head, loaf, savvy, think tank), пипе, интелект (intellect, intelligence, mentality, mind). (various references)

German

grips (brains, savvy, sense). (various references)

Greek 

νουσ (intellect, mind, sense, wit). (various references)

Hebrew 

תושי�" (advice, insight, presence of mind, resource, resourcefulness, resources, sagacity, wisdom), שכל �"ישר (common sense). (various references)

Hungarian

elme (mind), ész (brain, five wits, head, intellect, mind, reason, savvy, senses, wit). (various references)

Italian

mente (brains, esprit, mastermind, mentality, mind, spirit), intelletto (intellect, reason, understanding). (various references)

Pig Latin

ousnay.(various references)

Portuguese

sentido prático, senso comum (common sense), mente (mind, spirit), intelecto (brain, headpiece, intellect, mind, understanding), espírito (esprit, genie, ghost, go, jinnee, mind, poltergeist, psyche, python, soul, spirit, sprite, tone, wit), bom senso (gumption, judgement, judgment, reason, sanity). (various references)

Romanian

nous, minte (brain, imagination, intellect, judgment, mind, pate, reason, savvy, sense, spirit, thinking, wisdom, wit, wits), intelect (head, intellect, mentality, mind, spirit, understanding), glagore (brains, pate). (various references)

Russian 

разум (mind, reason, sense, wit), здравый смысл (common sense, good sense, sense), интеллект (intellect, mentality, mind, reason). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zdrav razum (common sense, savvy), um (intellect, mind, wit), razum (intellect, reason, sapience, wit). (various references)

Spanish

chirumen, cacumen (height). (various references)

Swedish

påhittighet (ingenuity, inventiveness). (various references)

Turkish

zekâ (acuity, acumen, acuteness, brain, brains, cleverness, cuteness, deepness, gray matter, grey matter, intelligence, mental, mentality, penetration, quick wit, sagacity, sapience, senses, understanding, wit), sağduyu (common sense, farsightedness, foresight, forethought, good sense, horse sense, judgement, lucidity, lucidness, mother wit, prudence, reason, sense), idrak (apperception, appreciation, cognation, cognizance, comprehension, consciousness, discernment, grasp, grip, intelligence, perception, percipience, perspicacity, realization), akıl (advice, bean, brain, chump, comprehension, consciousness, gray matter, grey matter, head, headpiece, intellect, intelligence, loaf, memory, mental, mind, prudence, psyche, reason, sapience, senses, strength of mind, wisdom, wit). (various references)

Ukrainian

інтелект (brain, intellect, intellection, intelligence, mind), розум (esprit, head, mentality, mind, notion, reason, wit), кмітливість (acumen, acuteness, apprehension, aptitude, aptness, brightness, gumption, headpiece, intelligence, nimbleness, pregnancy, prehension, quick wits, quickness, sagacity, savvy, sharpness, understanding), здоровий глузд (good sense, rationality). (various references)

Vietnamese 

óc thực tế. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "nous": nouses. (additional references)

Words ending with "nous": acinous, albuminous, altitudinous, aluminous, anachronous, androgynous, anginous, arenous, arsenous, arsonous, arteriovenous, asynchronous, autochthonous, autogenous, bimanous, biogenous, bituminous, burnous, cacophonous, caliginous, cartilaginous, cavernous, ceruminous, chitinous, collagenous, conterminous, coterminous, cretinous, criminous, diaphanous, diathermanous, diclinous, dicotyledonous, endogenous, enginous, epigonous, epigynous, epiphanous, erogenous, exogenous, farraginous, ferruginous, foraminous, fuliginous, gametogenous, gangrenous, gelatinous, geosynchronous, glutenous, glutinous, gluttonous. (additional references)

Words containing "nous": anachronously, asynchronously, autochthonously, autogenously, burnouses, cacophonously, cavernously, conterminously, coterminously, diaphanously, diaphanousness, diaphanousnesses, endogenously, exogenously, fuliginously, gelatinously, gelatinousness, gelatinousnesses, glutinously, gluttonously, gluttonousness, gluttonousnesses, heinously, heinousness, heinousnesses, indigenously, indigenousness, indigenousnesses, intravenouses, intravenously, isochronously, larcenously, libidinously, libidinousness, libidinousnesses, luminously, luminousness, luminousnesses, membranously, monotonously, monotonousness, monotonousnesses, mountainously, mountainousness, mountainousnesses, mucilaginously, multitudinously, multitudinousness, multitudinousnesses, mutinously, mutinousness. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: onus.

-1 letter: nos, nus, ons, son, sou, sun, uns.

-2 letters: no, nu, on, os, so, un, us.

+1 letter: bonus, bosun, conus, muons, nodus, nouns, snout, sound, swoun, tonus, uncos.

+2 letters: bosuns, bounds, bourns, buncos, bunkos, clonus, consul, cornus, counts, cousin, donuts, ensoul, fondus, founds, founts, fusion, futons, gluons, guanos, hounds, insoul, juncos, juntos, jupons, knouts, mounds, mounts, mourns, mungos, mutons, nodous, nonuse, nouses, onrush, onuses, osmund, ounces, outsin, pounds, puntos, putons, quoins, rouens, rounds, shogun, snouts, snouty, soudan, sounds, stound, suborn, summon, sunbow, sundog, swound, swouns, undoes, unions, unison, unshod, unsold, unsown, unstop, venous, vinous, voduns, wounds, youngs, yupons, zounds.