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    Nous
    /no͞os/

    noun

    • 1. common sense; practical intelligence: informal British "if he had any nous at all, he'd sell the movie rights"
    • 2. the mind or intellect.
  2. PLURAL PRONOUN. 1. we. Nous avons deux enfants. We have two children. 2. us. Viens avec nous. Come with us. 3. ourselves. Nous nous sommes bien amusés. We really enjoyed ourselves. 4. With reflexive verbs, nous is often not translated. Nous nous sommes levés très tard. We got up very late. nous-mêmes ourselves.

  3. NOUS translate: we, us, ourselves, us, we. Learn more in the Cambridge French-English Dictionary.

  4. nous / ˈ naʊs/ noun. Britannica Dictionary definition of NOUS. [noncount] British, informal. : the intelligence and ability to make good judgments and decisions. At least he had the foresight and nous [= common sense] to sell his stocks when he did. NOUS meaning: the intelligence and ability to make good judgments and decisions.

  5. 4 days ago · nous in American English. (nuːs, naus) noun. 1. Greek Philosophy. mind or intellect. 2. (in Neoplatonism) the first and purest emanation of the One, regarded as the self-contemplating order of the universe. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC.

  6. English translation of 'nous' nous. PLURAL PRONOUN. 1. we. Nous avons deux enfants. We have two children. 2. us. Viens avec nous. Come with us. 3. ourselves. Nous nous sommes bien amusés. We really enjoyed ourselves. 4. With reflexive verbs, nous is often not translated. Nous nous sommes levés très tard. We got up very late. nous-mêmes ourselves.

  7. 1. nous (sujet): nous. we. nous sommes en avance. we're early. nous n'avons pas terminé. we haven't finished. nous qui n'étions pas prêts avons dû faire. we weren't ready and we still had to do. il sait que ce n'est pas nous qui avons cassé la vitre.

  8. Commonly translated as ‘mind’ or ‘intellect’, the Greek word nous is a key term in the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle and Plotinus.

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