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Synonyms for nous
nus, naʊsnous

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  1. nousnoun

    common sense

    "she has great social nous"

    Synonyms:
    mind, head, psyche, brain

  2. mind, head, brain, psyche, nousnoun

    that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason

    "his mind wandered"; "I couldn't get his words out of my head"

    Synonyms:
    learning ability, idea, thinker, heading, promontory, psyche, school principal, wit, mind, head teacher, brainpower, intellect, question, mental capacity, fountainhead, encephalon, point, head, top dog, mentality, creative thinker, brain, headland, mastermind, brainiac, header, genius, headspring, foreland, pass, chief, headway, judgment, read/write head, judgement, drumhead, head word, forefront, capitulum, oral sex, principal, caput, straits, soul

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  1. List of paraphrases for "nous":

    we, us

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How to use nous in a sentence?

  1. Charles de LEUSSE:

    The mirror follows us, but it’s not a friend. (Le miroir nous suit, - Mais n’est un ami.)

  2. Charles de LEUSSE:

    It was nice to kill time. But the time buries us before... (On a beau tuer le temps, - Il nous enterre avant)

  3. Wendo Musaly:

    si tu vas aller comme ça aujourd'hui mais je ne vois pas qu'est-ce que tu aime Tu est ma beauté ma souvenir ma lumière et l'histoire que nous avons ne sera jamais allé

  4. Charles de LEUSSE:

    We die with a notice. Notice, this is our life. (Nous mourons avec un préavis. Le préavis, c'est notre vie)

  5. Charles de LEUSSE:

    We knit alone our life, before seeing by it our shroud. (Nous tricotons notre vie seule, Avant d'y voir notre linceul)


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