idea (n.)
- admonition
- advice
- advocacy
- aim
- ambition
- animus
- apprehension
- approach
- approximation
- arrangement
- aspiration
- assumption
- attack
- attitude
- awareness
- bearing
- belief
- blueprint
- briefing
- calculation
- cast
- caution
- caveat
- cerebration
- clue
- cogitation
- coloring
- conceit
- concept
- conception
- conceptualization
- conclusion
- connotation
- consequence
- consideration
- construct
- consultation
- contrivance
- conviction
- council
- counsel
- dash
- denotation
- desideratum
- design
- desire
- determination
- device
- direction
- disposition
- doctrine
- dream
- drift
- effect
- end
- enterprise
- essence
- estimate
- estimation
- ethos
- excogitation
- excuse
- exhortation
- explanation
- expostulation
- extension
- eye
- fancy
- fantasy
- feeling
- figuring
- force
- foresight
- forethought
- function
- game
- gist
- gleam
- goal
- guess
- guidance
- hint
- hortation
- hypothesis
- ideation
- impact
- implication
- import
- impression
- inkling
- instruction
- intellection
- intellectualization
- intension
- intent
- intention
- intimation
- judgment
- layout
- lick
- lights
- lineup
- look
- mapping
- meaning
- mentation
- method
- methodology
- mind
- monition
- motive
- mystique
- nisus
- noesis
- notion
- object
- objective
- observation
- opinion
- organization
- outlook
- overtone
- parley
- perception
- pertinence
- philosophy
- picture
- pith
- plan
- planning
- point
- position
- posture
- prearrangement
- presumption
- pretense
- pretext
- principle
- procedure
- program
- project
- proposal
- prospectus
- purport
- purpose
- ratiocination
- rationale
- rationalization
- reaction
- reason
- reasoning
- recommendation
- reference
- referent
- relation
- relevance
- remonstrance
- resolution
- resolve
- sake
- schedule
- schema
- schematization
- scheme
- scintilla
- scope
- sense
- sentiment
- setup
- shade
- shadow
- sight
- significance
- signification
- sip
- smack
- smattering
- smell
- soupcon
- spark
- spirit
- sprinkling
- stance
- strategy
- striving
- study
- substance
- suggestion
- sum
- sup
- suspicion
- system
- systematization
- tactics
- taste
- tenet
- tenor
- theory
- thinking
- thought
- tincture
- tinge
- touch
- trace
- understanding
- undertone
- value
- view
- viewpoint
- warning
- way
- will
There is what I call the American idea. . . . This idea demands, as the proximate organization thereof, a democracy,—that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God. For shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.
Mr. Kremlin was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
The idea of her life shall sweetly creep
Into his study of imagination,
And every lovely organ of her life,
Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit,
More moving-delicate and full of life
Into the eye and prospect of his soul.
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,
To teach the young idea how to shoot.
