1. the ability to learn and reason; the capacity for knowledge and understanding.
2. the ability to think abstractly or profoundly. see synonyms at mind.
3. A person of great intellectual ability.

1. the faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding (uncountable)
2. the capacity of that faculty (in a particular person) (uncountable)
3. a person who has that faculty to a great degree

1. the part or faculty of the human mind by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; the power to judge and comprehend; the thinking faculty; the understanding.
2. the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; mental capacity.
3. A particular mind, especially a person of high intelligence.

1. the understanding; the sum of all the cognitive faculties except sense, or except sense and imagination.
2. mind collectively; current or collective intelligence: as, the intellect of the time.
3. plural wits; senses; mind: as, disordered in his intellects.

1. knowledge and intellectual ability
2. a person who uses the mind creatively
3. the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination