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Meaning

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What's The Definition Of Meaning?

[n] the idea that is intended; "What is the meaning of this proverb?"
[n] the message that is intended or expressed or signified; "what is the meaning of this sentence"; "the significance of a red traffic light"; "the signification of Chinese characters"; "the import of his announcement was ambigtuous"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Meaning: import | significance | signification | substance

Related Terms | Find terms related to Meaning: acceptation | aim | allegory | allusion | ambition | animus | arcane meaning | aspiration | assumption | balefulness | banefulness | bodefulness | characterization | coloration | connotation | construction | content | counsel | definition | denomination | denotation | description | desideration | desideratum | design | designation | desire | determination | diagnosis | differentiation | direness | disclosure | doomfulness | drift | effect | essence | explanation | expression | fatality | fatefulness | fingering | fixed purpose | force | function | gist | hint | idea | identification | implication | implied meaning | import | indication | indicativeness | inference | innuendo | intendment | intent | intention | interpretation | intimation | ironic suggestion | manifestation | message | metaphorical sense | mind | motive | naming | nisus | nuance | occult meaning | ominousness | overtone | picking out | plan | point | pointing | pointing out | pointing to | portent | portentousness | presagefulness | presumption | presupposition | project | proposal | prospectus | purport | purpose | reading | resolution | resolve | sake | selection | sense | show | showing | significance | significancy | signification | sinisterness | specification | spirit | striving | study | subsense | subsidiary sense | substance | suggestion | suggestiveness | sum and substance | supposition | symbolism | symptomaticness | tenor | tinge | touch | undercurrent | undermeaning | understanding | undertone | value | view | way of seeing | will

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Meaning In Webster's Dictionary

\Mean"ing\, n. 1. That which is meant or intended; intent; purpose; aim; object; as, a mischievous meaning was apparent. If there be any good meaning towards you. --Shak. 2. That which is signified, whether by act lanquage; signification; sence; import; as, the meaning of a hint. 3. Sense; power of thinking. [R.] -- {Mean"ing*less}, a. -- {Mean"ing*ly}, adv.

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