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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

1. knowledge and intellectual ability;
- Example: "he reads to improve his mind"
- Example: "he has a keen intellect"
[syn: mind, intellect]

2. the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination;
- Example: "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil"
[syn: reason, understanding, intellect]

3. a person who uses the mind creatively;
[syn: intellectual, intellect]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Intellect \In"tel*lect\, n. [L. intellectus, fr. intelligere, intellectum, to understand: cf. intellect. See Intelligent.] 1. (Metaph.) 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. [1913 Webster] 2. The capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the power to perceive objects in their relations; mental capacity. [PJC] 3. A particular mind, especially a person of high intelligence; as, he was a great intellect. [PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

intellect n 1: knowledge and intellectual ability; "he reads to improve his mind"; "he has a keen intellect" [syn: mind, intellect] 2: the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil" [syn: reason, understanding, intellect] 3: a person who uses the mind creatively [syn: intellectual, intellect]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

82 Moby Thesaurus words for "intellect": Brahmin, IQ, apprehension, authority, brain, brains, brainworker, caliber, capacity, cleverness, common sense, comprehension, conception, consciousness, deductive power, doctor, egghead, elder, elder statesman, esemplastic power, genius, great soul, guru, head, highbrow, ideation, illuminate, integrative power, intellectual, intellectual grasp, intellectual power, intellectualism, intellectualist, intellectuality, intelligence, intelligence quotient, intuition, judgement, knowledge, literate, lover of wisdom, mahatma, man of intellect, man of wisdom, mandarin, master, mastermind, mental age, mental capacity, mental grasp, mental ratio, mentality, mentor, mind, mother wit, native wit, oracle, philosopher, power of mind, pundit, rabbi, rationality, reason, reasonableness, reasoning power, rishi, sage, sanity, sapient, savant, scholar, scope of mind, seer, sense, starets, thinker, thinking power, understanding, white-collar intellectual, wise man, wise old man, wit
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

INTELLECT A query language written by Larry Harris in 1977, close to natural English. (1995-04-14)