Dictionary Definition
meaning adj : rich in significance or
implication; "a meaning look"; "pregnant with meaning" [syn:
meaning(a),
pregnant, significant]
Noun
1 the message that is intended or expressed or
signified; "what is the meaning of this sentence"; "the
significance of a red traffic light"; "the signification of Chinese
characters"; "the import of his announcement was ambigtuous" [syn:
significance,
signification,
import]
2 the idea that is intended; "What is the meaning
of this proverb?" [syn: substance]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iːnɪŋ
Verb
meaning- present participle of mean
Noun
- The symbolic value of something.
- The significance of a thing, as "the meaning of life"
- The definition or connotation of a word.
Derived terms
Translations
symbolic value of something
significance of a thing, as "the meaning of
life"
- Danish: mening
- Dutch: zin
- Finnish: tarkoitus
- Greek: νόημα
- Russian: смысл
- Slovene: smisel
definition or connotation of a word
- Czech: význam, smysl
- Danish: betydning
- Dutch: betekenis
- Finnish: merkitys
- Greek: σημασία, έννοια
- Russian: значение (značénije) , толкование (tolkovánije) , смысл (smysl)
- Slovene: pomen
- ttbc Arabic: (ma‘nā)
- ttbc Chinese: 意思 (yìsi)
- ttbc French: signification
- ttbc Friulan: significât
- ttbc German: Bedeutung
- ttbc Hebrew: משמעות (masham'ut)
- ttbc Icelandic: meining
- ttbc Indonesian: arti
- ttbc Italian: significato
- ttbc Japanese: 意味
- ttbc Korean: 뜻 (tteus, tteut), 의미 (意味, uimi)
- ttbc Kurdish: ,
- ttbc Portuguese: significado , sentido
- ttbc Romanian: înţeles , sens , semnificaţie
- ttbc Spanish: significado
- ttbc Telugu: అర్థం (arthaM)
Extensive Definition
Meaning may refer to:
Theoretic
- Meaning (linguistic), meaning which is communicated through the use of language
- Meaning (non-linguistic), extra-linguistic meaning (intentional communication without the use of language), and natural meaning, where no intentions are involved at all
- Meaning (semiotics) has to do with the distribution of signs in sign relations
- Meaning as a relationship between ontology and truth
- Meaning as a reference or equivalence
- Meaning as values, a value system or as derived from value theory
- Meaning (existential), as it is understood in contemporary existentialism and logotherapy
- The meaning of life, a notion concerning the nature of human existence
Proper name
- "Meaning" (House episode), an episode of the television series House
- Meanings (album), an album by Gad Elbaz
See also
meaning in German: Bedeutung
meaning in Finnish: Merkitys
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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