Definitions for nous

nous nous

Spelling: [noos, nous]
IPA: /nus, naʊs/

Nous is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in nous (nosu).

Definitions for nous

noun

  1. Greek Philosophy. mind or intellect.
  2. Neoplatonism. the first and purest emanation of the One, regarded as the self-contemplating order of the universe.

Origin of nous

1670-80; Greek noûs, contracted variant of nóos mind

Examples for nous

nous or Reason is the regulator and the cause of all things.

As soon as we see the faults of an institution, nous la brisons.

"nous allong—" began Rose, meekly; but she was cut short in her repetition.

It is needless to say, that now "nous avons chang tout cela."

We find423 connected the terms "nous" and "phronsis," also "anastasis."

"nous vivrons Paris" ('Tis to Paris we go), they shout in glad triumph, and are off.

The Homœomeries are coeternal with, if not anterior to, nous.

Why, I've been the secret wolf he never had the nous to guess at!

I cried, as I realised that it was the other end Jack Penny had had the nous to lower at once.

I fancied the old fellow had no nous, except for Latin and Greek.

Word Value for nous
Scrable

4

Words with friends

6

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