idea – English noun declension

English noun forms of idea

Noun: idea
Singularidea
Pluralideas

Sample Sentences

  • The idea that the same experiments always get the same results, no matter who performs them, is one of the cornerstones of science’s claim to objective truth. If a systematic campaign of replication does not lead to the same results, then either the original research is flawed (as the replicators claim) or the replications are (as many of the original researchers on priming contend). Either way, something is awry. [2013 October 19, “Trouble at the lab”, in The Economist, volume 409, number 8858:]
  • The remembrance whereof (which yet I beare deepely imprinted in my minde) representing me her visage and Idea so lively and so naturally, doth in some sort reconcile me unto her. [1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 6, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:]
  • The mere idea of you is enough to excite me.
  • Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter III, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • Ideas won't go to jail. [1952, Alfred Whitney Griswold, (Please provide the book title or journal name):]
  • I have an idea of how we might escape.
  • Yeah, that's the idea.
  • My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
  • 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. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend. [2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:]
  • He had the wild idea that if he leant forward a little, he might be able to touch the mountain-top.

Nouns inflected like idea

boa, paranoia, area, idea,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *weyd-der.
3. Ancient Greek ῐ̓δεῖν (ĭdeîn)
4. Ancient Greek ῐ̓δέᾱ (ĭdéā)der.
5. Latin ideabor.
6. English idea
7. Borrowed from Latin idea (“a (Platonic) idea; archetype”), from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from εἴδω (eídō, “to see”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“to know; see”). Cognate with French idée. Doublet of idée. Related to idol, idolum, and eidolon. See: Latin Nouns 'idea', Ancient Greek Nouns 'ἰδέα', French Nouns 'idée'.

Verbs referencing "idea"

Danish Nouns idé.