Other forms: minds, minded, minding
Your mind is the thinking, feeling and remembering part of you. Keep an open mind, it slipped my mind, out of your mind.
The verb has two everyday senses that pull in opposite directions. Mind means to object — do you mind if I sit here, I do not mind at all — and it means to look after: mind the children, mind the shop. It also means be careful of: mind the gap, mind your head. The idioms are countless: change your mind, make up your mind, bear in mind, in two minds, and never mind, which dismisses whatever came before it.
1nounmindThe thinking, feeling and remembering part of a person.~94%
“Her mind was somewhere else the whole meeting.”
2verbobjectTo object to something.~2%
“Nobody minded waiting, which surprised him.”
3verblookTo look after somebody or something.~2%
“Could you mind the shop for ten minutes?”
4verbcarefulTo be careful of.~2%
“Mind the step on the way out.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 13 sentences found in the wild and placed 13 of them on a sense — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
mind is the thinking part of a person.
Old English gemynd comes from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning thought, which also gives Latin mens — the source of mental, mention, and comment. Mind, mental and memory are branches of one very old idea.
Proto-Indo-European
*men-
Proto-Indo-European
*méntis — thought
Proto-Germanic
*mundiz
Proto-West Germanic
*mundi
Old English
mynd
Middle English
minde
English, today
mind
Built from
From Middle English minde, munde, imynde, imunde, ȝemynde, ȝemunde, from Old English mynd, ġemynd (“mind, memory”), from Proto-West Germanic mundi, gamundi, from Proto-Germanic mundiz, gamundiz (“memory, remembrance”), from Proto-Indo-European méntis (“thought”) (compare also mantis, via Greek), from the root men- (“to think”). Cognate with Old High German gimunt "mind, memory, remembrance"; Middle High German munst (“love, benevolence, joy”), Old Norse mynd (“image, model”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍃 (“remembrance, memory, mind”). Related also to Danish minde (“memory”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish minne (“memory”), Faroese and Icelandic minni (“memory, recall, recollection”), Latin mēns (“mind, reason”), Sanskrit मनस्, Ancient Greek μένος, Albanian mënd (“mind, reason”). Related to mantra. Compare also Old English myntan (“to mean, intend, purpose, determine, resolve”). More at mint#Etymology 3.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA