say it: kuhn-SID-ur
consider is a verb meaning "deem to be". It carries 9 recorded senses.
take into consideration for exemplifying purposes
“Take the case of China”
“Consider the following case”
think about carefully; weigh
“They considered the possibility of a strike”
“Turn the proposal over in your mind”
look at carefully; study mentally
“view a problem”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for consider come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.