mention

1. 1.

   make reference to

   “His name was mentioned in connection with the invention”

   Synonymsadvertbring upcitenamerefer

   Broaderthink of

   Narrowercommendspeak of the devilrememberquotetouch oninvokenamedropraisedrag upcross-refer
2. 2.

   make mention of

   “She observed that his presentation took up too much time”

   “They noted that it was a fine day to go sailing”

   Synonymsnoteobserveremark

   Broaderstate

   Narrowercomment
3. 3.

   commend

   “he was cited for his outstanding achievements”

   Synonymscite

   Broadernotice

Other forms of mention

plural

mentions·

past tense

mentioned·

present participle

mentioning·

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.

Questions about mention

What does mention mean?

mention means "a remark that calls attention to something or someone". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mention?

mention has 2 syllables: men-tion. The stress falls on "men". In IPA it is /ˈmɛnʃən/.

What is another word for mention?

Close synonyms include reference, citation, cite, acknowledgment, credit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mention a common word?

mention is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mention?

1 word rhymes with mention. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.