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ponder

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishponderen, fromOld Frenchponderer(“to weigh, balance, ponder”) fromLatinponderare(“to weigh, ponder”), frompondus(“weight”), frompendere(“to weigh”); seependent andpound.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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ponder (third-person singular simple presentponders,present participlepondering,simple past and past participlepondered)

  1. Towonder,think of deeply.
  2. Toconsider (something)carefully andthoroughly.
    Synonyms:chew over,mull over;see alsoThesaurus:ponder
    I have spent dayspondering the meaning of life.
  3. (obsolete) Toweigh.

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Translations

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to think deeply
to consider carefully

Noun

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ponder (pluralponders)

  1. (colloquial) A period of deep thought.
    I lit my pipe and had aponder about it, but reached no definite conclusion.

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Middle English

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Etymology

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From Middle Englishponderen, fromOld Frenchponderer(“to weigh, balance, ponder”) fromLatinponderare(“to weigh, ponder”), frompondus(“weight”), frompendere(“to weigh”).

Noun

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ponder (pluralponders)

  1. (glassblowing, obsolete) A fourteenth-century unit of glass.
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