Definition of Meanings

1. Noun. (plural of meaning) ¹

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Definition of Meanings

1. meaning [n] - See also: meaning

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meanings

meanest
meaneth
meanie
meanies
meanin'
meaning
meaning(a)
meaning of life
meaningful
meaningfully
meaningfulness
meaningless
meaninglessly
meaninglessness
meaningly
meanings (current term)
meanish
meanless
meanly
meanness
meannesses
means
means-test
means-tested
means of exchange
means of production
means of transport
means of transportation
means proportional

Literary usage of Meanings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Practical Study of Languages: A Guide for Teachers and Learners by Henry Sweet (1906)
"In them the meanings and definitions are given in a lump without any ... meanings The first business of a dictionary is to give the meanings of the ..."

2. Poetry as a Representative Art: An Essay in Comparative Aesthetics by George Lansing Raymond (1899)
"meanings OF WORDS AS DEVELOPED BY ASSOCIATION AND COMPARISON. Instinctive Ejaculatory Sounds, and Reflective Imitative Sounds, becoming words by Agreement, ..."

3. An Advanced English Grammar: With Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge, Frank Edgar Farley (1913)
"The variety of meanings which subordinate clauses may express is great, but most of these meanings come under the following heads : — (1) place or time, ..."

4. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"More progress will be made, therefore, if instead of consider- int what courts have said about waiver, an analysis is attempted of the various meanings ..."

5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"So I do not ' observe' meanings; the word implies a more active attitude than is correct for meanings; I take the meanings as given to me from without. ..."

6. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin, Robert Campbell (1880)
"Different meanings of Equity. As I remarked in the Lecture before the last, the original jus gentium is the universal and ..."

7. The New Realism: Coöperative Studies in Philosophy by Edwin Bissell Holt (1912)
"But with these derived meanings we here have nothing to do. They are particular cases of independence in which the circumstances of the application have vj ..."

8. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume (1890)
"Between these two meanings of existence—its mean- ^f£°n~f ing as ... But by help of Locke's equivocation between the two meanings of existence, ..."

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