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ум — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • brightness noun The quality or degree of giving off or reflecting light.
  • intellect noun The mental capacity for reasoning, understanding, and abstract thought.
  • intelligence noun The ability to learn, understand, and apply knowledge effectively.
  • mind noun The part of a person responsible for thought, awareness, memory, and reasoning.
  • pate noun The top of a person's head, especially when bald.
  • reason noun A cause or explanation for something; the motive behind an action.
  • wit noun The ability to say clever, funny things quickly.

Senses

ум is used for these senses in English:

  • brightness (idiomatic, figurative) Intelligence, cleverness.
  • intellect (uncountable) The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty.
  • intelligence (mostly, uncountable) The quality of making use or having made use of such capacities: depth of understanding, mental quickness.
  • mind The capability for rational thought.
  • mind The ability to be aware of things.
  • mind Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
  • pate (archaic) Wit, cleverness, cognitive abilities.
  • reason (uncountable) Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.

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