Meaning

Verb
meaning



Noun

 * 1) The symbolic value of something.
 * 2) The significance of a thing, as "the meaning of life"
 * 3)  The objects or concept that a word or phrase denotes, or that which a sentence says.

Synonyms

 * sense

Hyponyms

 * proposition

Derived terms

 * antimeaning
 * meaning of life
 * meaningful
 * meaningless
 * meaninglessly
 * meaninglessness

Adjectives for Meaning
mysterious; common; inexpressible; pathetic; doubtful; mythical; majestic; secondary; imploring; earnest; ominous; ambiguous; solemn; veiled; gentle; odious; candid; double; true; remote; ultimate; uncertain; specific; significant; obvious; generous; wicked; eucharistic; fearful; undecipherable; patriotic; platonic; heavenly; universal; philosophical; shrunken; painful; lawful; mean; historic; symbolic; irresolute; serious; deadly; unmistakable; plain; dark; intelligible; cloudy; abstruse; legitimate; moral; profound; folded; hideous; concrete; precise; borrowed; infinite; intellectual; spiritual; unaffected; unattractive; huge; hybrid; cryptic; secular; sexual; incredible; second; elusive; considerable; instant; involved; vague; express; accumulated; vital.

Verbs for Meaning
absorb—;   adulterate—;    apprehend—; ascribe—to; bestow—upon; clarify—; com¬prehend—; discover—; elaborate on—; elucidate—; embody—; extricate—from; grasp —; illustrate—; imply—; impregnate with —; pervert—; ponder—; reflect upon—; seek—; sum up—; translate—; weigh with —; wresle with—; attach—to.

Thesaurus
acceptation, aim, allegory, allusion, ambition, animus, arcane meaning, aspiration, assumption, balefulness, banefulness, bodefulness, characterization, coloration, connotation, construction, content, counsel, definition, denomination, denotation, description, desideration, desideratum, design, designation, desire, determination, diagnosis, differentiation, direness, disclosure, doomfulness, drift, effect, essence, explanation, expression, fatality, fatefulness, fingering, fixed purpose, force, function, gist, hint, idea, identification, implication, implied meaning, import, indication, indicativeness, inference, innuendo, intendment, intent, intention, interpretation, intimation, ironic suggestion, manifestation, message, metaphorical sense, mind, motive, naming, nisus, nuance, occult meaning, ominousness, overtone, picking out, plan, point, pointing, pointing out, pointing to, portent, portentousness, presagefulness, presumption, presupposition, project, proposal, prospectus, purport, purpose, reading, resolution, resolve, sake, selection, sense, show, showing, significance, significancy, signification, sinisterness, specification, spirit, striving, study, subsense, subsidiary sense, substance, suggestion, suggestiveness, sum and substance, supposition, symbolism, symptomaticness, tenor, tinge, touch, undercurrent, undermeaning, understanding, undertone, value, view, way of seeing, will

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,  , ,
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: signification, sens
 * German:
 * Hindi: मतलब
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,


 * Macedonian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Tajik:
 * Thai: ความหมาย
 * Turkish: anlam,,  kasıt
 * Urdu: معنی
 * Vietnamese: nghĩa
 * Welsh: ystyr


 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,  , , ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Macedonian: смисла, смисол
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish: anlam
 * Welsh: ystyr


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, merking
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Korean: ,
 * Macedonian:, смисла,  смисол
 * Norwegian:, tyding
 * Persian:
 * Polish: znaczenie
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, толкование,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, betydelse
 * Welsh: ystyr


 * : signification
 * : significât
 * : Bedeutung
 * : משמעות (masham'ut)
 * : meining
 * : arti
 * : significato
 * : 뜻 (tteut), 의미 (意味, uimi)
 * : significado, sentido
 * : înţeles, sens , semnificaţie
 * : significado
 * : అర్థం (arthaM)
 * : significado
 * : అర్థం (arthaM)

Anagrams

 * amening