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meaning

noun
/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/UK/ˈmi.nɪŋ/CA/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/

Etymology

From Middle English mening, menyng, equivalent to mean + -ing. Cognate with Scots mening (“intent, purpose, sense, meaning”), West Frisian miening (“opinion, mind”), Dutch mening (“view, opinion, judgement”), German Meinung (“opinion, view, mind, idea”), Danish and Swedish mening (“meaning, sense, sentence, opinion”), Icelandic meining (“meaning”).

  1. inherited from mening

Definitions

  1. The denotation, referent, or idea connected with a word, expression, or symbol.

  2. The connotation associated with a word, expression, or symbol.

  3. The purpose, value, or significance (of something) beyond the fact of that thing's…

    The purpose, value, or significance (of something) beyond the fact of that thing's existence.

    • the meaning of life
    • The number of persons attending the vigil had a lot of meaning to the families.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Intention.

      • It was their meaning to take what they needed by strong hand.
      • […] there was nothing in the house, what there was, was broken, the last people must have lived like pigs, what could the meaning of the landlord be?

    2. present participle and gerund of mean

      • Chinghung, meaning “City of the Dawn” in the Tai language, the capital of the Hsishuangpanna Tai Autonomous Chou, lies in an agricultural area on the lower Lantsang.

    3. Having a (specified) intention.

      • Well/ill meaning.

    4. Expressing some intention or significance

      Expressing some intention or significance; meaningful.

      • I might, to-day, have been a better, and thus a happier man, had I less frequently rejected the counsels embodied in those meaning whispers which I then but too cordially hated and too bitterly despised.
      • There was a meaning pause, broken by old Stein again clapping his hands.
      • [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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Derived

antimeaning, double meaning, foremeaning, get the meaning, loan meaning, meaninged, meaningful, meaningless, meaninglessly, meaninglessness, meaning of life, meaning-text model, meaning-text theory, nonmeaning, plain meaning rule, self-referential meaning, submeaning, take the meaning, undermeaning, meaningly, meaningness, unmeaning

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at meaning. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at meaning. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at meaning

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA