Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A table, or something resembling a table.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun Mensa International; an organization for people with very high IQs.
  • proper noun astronomy A summer constellation of the southern sky, originally named after Table Mountain in South Africa. It lies between the constellations of Hydrus and Volans.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a faint constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere and containing part of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin mensa, "table"; the organization promotes itself as a "round-table" society in which differences in the backgrounds of its members are considered irrelevant.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Mensa.

Examples

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.