Word a Day
mood
What does mood mean?
mood (noun): a mental or emotional state, composure.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use mood in a sentence?
How do you pronounce mood?
/mud/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does mood come from?
From Middle English mood, mode, mod, from Old English mōd (“mind,” in poetry also “heart, spirit, courage”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōd, from Proto-Germanic *mōdaz (“sense, courage, zeal, anger”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “mood” mean?
a particular point of time; an instant
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a generally accepted means of exchange
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an account of real or fictional events
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a mental or emotional state, composure
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