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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishmening,menyng, equivalent tomean +‎-ing. Cognate withScotsmening(“intent, purpose, sense, meaning”),West Frisianmiening(“opinion, mind”),Dutchmening(“view, opinion, judgement”),GermanMeinung(“opinion, view, mind, idea”),Danish andSwedishmening(“meaning, sense, sentence, opinion”),Icelandicmeining(“meaning”).

Noun

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meaning (countable anduncountable,pluralmeanings)

  1. (ofwords,expressions orsymbols)
    1. Thedenotation,referent, oridea connected with aword,expression, orsymbol.
      • 1907 August,Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, inThe Younger Set, New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company,→OCLC:
        Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶"I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occultmeaning has a sun-dial for the spooney?I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
    2. Theconnotation associated with a word, expression, or symbol.
  2. Thepurpose,value, orsignificance (of something) beyond the fact of that thing'sexistence.
    themeaning of life
    The number of persons attending the vigil had a lot ofmeaning to the families.
  3. (of a person's actions)Intention.
    • c.1610?,Walter Raleigh,A Discourse of War:
      It was theirmeaning to take what they needed by strong hand.
    • 1859,Charles Dickens,The Haunted House:
      […] there was nothing in the house, what there was, was broken, the last people must have lived like pigs, what could themeaning of the landlord be?
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symbolic value of something
significance of a thing, as "the meaning of life"
definition or connotation of a word
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Etymology 2

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Frommean +‎-ing.

Verb

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meaning

  1. presentparticiple andgerund ofmean
    • 2013 July-August,Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, inAmerican Scientist:
      Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latinturbo,meaningvortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.

Adjective

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meaning (comparativemoremeaning,superlativemostmeaning)

  1. Having a (specified)intention.
    Well/illmeaning.
  2. Expressing some intention or significance;meaningful.
    • 1839,Edgar Allan Poe,William Wilson:
      I might, to-day, have been a better, and thus a happier man, had I less frequently rejected the counsels embodied in thosemeaning whispers which I then but too cordially hated and too bitterly despised.
    • 1907,Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson,Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published1980, page243:
      There was ameaning pause, broken by old Stein again clapping his hands.
    • 1978,Jane Gardam,God on the Rocks, Abacus, published2014, page160:
      [T]he new friends […] knew nothing and did not particularly care to hear about the beautiful mother with her long,meaning looks and liquid dresses and distant smile.

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References

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  • “meaning”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.

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