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[edit] Etymology 1

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).

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meaning (plural meanings)

  1. The symbolic value of something.
  2. The significance of a thing.
    the meaning of life
  3. (semantics) The objects or concept that a word or phrase denotes, or that which a sentence says.
  4. (obsolete) intention
    It was their meaning to take what they needed by stronghand. — Sir Walter Raleigh.
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[edit] Etymology 2

From mean.

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meaning

  1. Present participle of mean.


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