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Meaning

noun

1.

The message that is intended or expressed or signified. Synonyms: import, significance, signification. "The significance of a red traffic light" , "The signification of Chinese characters" , "The import of his announcement was ambiguous"

2.

The idea that is intended. Synonym: substance.

adjective

1.

Rich in significance or implication. Synonyms: pregnant, significant.

Mean

verb

(past & past part. meant; pres. part. meaning)

1.

Mean or intend to express or convey. Synonym: intend. "What do his words intend?"

2.

Have as a logical consequence. Synonyms: entail, imply.

3.

Denote or connote. Synonyms: intend, signify, stand for. "An example sentence would show what this word means"

4.

Have in mind as a purpose. Synonyms: intend, think. "I only meant to help you" , "She didn't think to harm me" , "We thought to return early that night"

5.

Have a specified degree of importance. "Happiness means everything"

6.

Intend to refer to. Synonyms: have in mind, think of. "Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!"

7.

Destine or designate for a certain purpose.

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... he could get. She explained apologetically that she was beginning to run out of things, and that she had no idea they were going to have such awful appetites, and that of course there were two extra people to feed, and that they certainly could dispose of their share three times a day,—meaning, of course, Annie-Many-Ponies and ...

— The Phantom Herd • B. M. Bower

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— The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

... the first. Don't go back on me now or I shall go to pieces like the Drummond Castle. I beg your pardon, old man; but, you see, you do know the dog. I'll prove it. What's that dog doing? Come on! You know.' A tremor shook him, and he put his hand on my knee, and whispered with great meaning: 'I'll letter or halve it with ...

— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling

... laugh, or, rather, the chaos of emotions which produced it as their synthetic culmination, that Ivan carried away from his father's house. So peculiar had been its tone, that even the soldiers at the gate who heard it were enabled to surmise something of its meaning. But only Ivan himself was fully conscious of how perfectly it epitomized the final disillusionment that had swept away from him the last of his youth. By that laugh, also, was engendered the mood that now rode him for many months, and was only thrown at last by means of a desperate strategy. ...

— The Genius • Margaret Horton Potter

... delighted at my sending him away, and I resolved then and there to lay siege to her heart. I began by talking to her in a very meaning manner all supper-time, while the marquis entertained Annette. I asked him if he thought I could get a felucca next day to ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

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