Word Finder - meaning

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(of words or symbols) The entity, perception, feeling or concept thereby represented or evoked.

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

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the meaning of life

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The object or concept that a word or phrase denotes, or that which a sentence says.

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Intention.

She says He (meaning God) is my dear father.

There is more than one meaning of Annapolis discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

I've been meaning to get my bike fixed too.

They didn't know the meaning of the word.

The loss of charge is due to more than one cause, and it is difficult to attribute an absolutely definite meaning even to results obtained with the cover on.

Or maybe the only real meaning of life is to take what pleasure you want from it.

You were meaning to go out, weren't you, Mamma?

Until men learn the meaning of the word no, I'll protect myself in the way that has proven most effective.

He showed that assigning meaning to the sign of an otherwise homogenous representation of geometry could provide a multitude of benefits.

However, you can look at our glossary, which explains the meaning of all these new terms.

A few months ago she didn't know the true meaning of love.

She made the "c-a," then stopped and thought, and making the sign for eating and pointing downward she pushed me toward the door, meaning that I must go downstairs for some cake.

There is more than one meaning of Lima discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

No, meaning you should mind your own business - meaning this isn't your stable.

She tried to decipher his meaning as she watched them fight, terrified to take her eyes off Rhyn.

The meaning of the name is uncertain.

Wynn debated the meaning behind the words.

In the canon law the word bears a more extended meaning than in English law.

It is also used as a term of abuse, meaning "boor."

There is more than one meaning of Newcastle discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

There is more than one meaning of Dardanelles discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

There is more than one meaning of Kerman discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

There is more than one meaning of Fribourg discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

There is more than one meaning of Brunswick discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

The president of this council, or ruling chief - chosen from among the members of the two recognized reigning families - is called the alake, a word meaning "Lord of Ake," Ake being the name of the principal quarter of Abeokuta, after the ancient capital of the Egbas.

There is more than one meaning of Granada discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

There is more than one meaning of Arnobius discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

Each proposition of the decree is carefully tracked to its probable source, and is often found to modify the latter's meaning.

At the time of Charlemagne, the word Austrasia underwent a change of meaning and became synonymous with Francia orientalis, and was applied to the Frankish dominions beyond the Rhine (Franconia).

The word has been used technically in philosophy with various shades of meaning.

A special meaning has been assigned to the term " lines of induction."

The western church did not accept Jerome's definition of apocrypha, but retained the word in its original meaning, though great confusion prevailed.

It is not therefore surprising that the most various views are still held as to the date and meaning of the book.

In this connexion it should be observed that the word patrimonium gradually changed in meaning.

The Frankish kings of the Merovingian dynasty retained the Roman system of administration, and under them the word comes preserved its original meaning; the comes was a companion of the king, a royal servant of high rank.

A relic of the old official meaning of "count" still survives in Transylvania, where the head of the political administration of the Saxon districts is styled count (comes, Graf) of the Saxon Nation.

In the confusion of the period of transition, when the title to possession was usually the power to hold, designations which had once possessed a definite meaning were preserved with no defined association.

In Germany the change from the official to the territorial and hereditary counts followed at the outset much the same course as in France, though the later development of the title and its meaning was different.

Prantl has professed to find the headstream of Nominalism also in Scotus Erigena; but beyond the fact that he discusses at considerable length the categories of thought and their mutual relations, occasionally using the term voces to express his meaning, Prantl appears to adduce no reasons for an assertion which directly contradicts Erigena's most fundamental doctrines.

And we must probe the deepest meaning of the terms we are trying to be accurate about.

Then I took the doll, meaning to give it back to her when she had made the letters; but she thought I meant to take it from her, and in an instant she was in a temper, and tried to seize the doll.

Next I tried to teach her the meaning of FAST and SLOW.

He now understood the whole meaning and importance of this war and of the impending battle.

The whole meaning of life--not for him alone but for the whole world--seemed to him centered in his love and the possibility of being loved by her.

The meaning and derivation of the name are not known.

There is more than one meaning of Tarragona discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

There is more than one meaning of Dover discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.

The Zulu forces crossed the Tugela the same day, and the most advanced parties of the Boers were massacred, many at a spot near where the town of Weenen now stands, its name (meaning wailing or weeping) commemorating the event.

The author interprets Boetius's meaning to be " Quod eadem res individuum et species et genus est, et non esse universalia individuis quasi quoddam diversum."

Holding fast then on the one hand to the individual as the only true substance, and on the other to the traditional definition of the genus as that which is predicated of a number of individuals (quod praedicatur de pluribus), Abelard declared that this definition of itself condemns the Realistic theory; only a name, not a thing, can be so predicated - not the name, however, as a flatus vocis or a collection of letters, but the name as used in discourse, the name as a sign, as having a meaning - in a word, not vox but sermo.