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mode

Pronunciation: /moːd/

“mode” is a Middle English word. Its 18 meanings in English:

noun

  1. Fortitude, braveness, bravery, heart.
  2. Vainness, proudness; the display of conceit.
  3. Sadness, lamenting; the state of being sad or upset.
  4. Angriness, ire, resentment.
  5. One's mental capacity or intellect; the fount of reasoning.
  6. One's overall or overarching feelings; an opinion or will.
  7. What one currently wants or likes; a goal or aim
  8. One's motivation or willpower; resoluteness.
  9. Part of one's thought process.
  10. A person's nature or temperament; that which defines one's behaviour.
  11. One's visible nature; the appearance of someone.
  12. One's actions as a whole; the way one behaves.
  13. Writing or speaking; communication.
  14. An enterprise or endeavour.
  15. Grammatical mood or modality.
  16. Songs; pieces or sources of music.

adjective

  1. Vain, boastful, conceited.
  2. Upset, distressed.

Etymology

From Old English mōd, from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz.

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