mention

About 28.41 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A speaking or noticing of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner.
2. noun A social media feed, a list of replies or posts mentioning a person.
3. verb To make mention of; to speak of; to refer to; to name; to specify

   He happened to mention your name to me.

4. verb To utter a word or expression in order to refer to the expression itself, as opposed to its usual referent.

Similar words

remark refer observe reference name note quotation cite acknowledge honorable mention

Often followed by

of the that it a is in this here

Word family

mentionable mentioned mentioner mentioners mentioning mentions