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meaning
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mi?n??/
- Rhymes: -i?n??
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”).
Noun
meaning (countable and uncountable, plural meanings)
- (of words, expressions or symbols)
- The denotation, referent, or idea connected with a word, expression, or symbol.
- Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
- The connotation associated with a word, expression, or symbol.
- The denotation, referent, or idea connected with a word, expression, or symbol.
- The purpose, value, or significance (of something) beyond the fact of that thing's existence.
- The number of persons attending the vigil had a lot of meaning to the families.
- (of a person's actions) Intention.
- c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War
- It was their meaning to take what they needed by strong hand.
- c. 1610?, Walter Raleigh, A Discourse of War
Synonyms
- (denotation of words etc.): definition
- (connotation of words etc.):
- (purpose, significance):
- (of a person's actions): goal, aim, plan, intent
Hyponyms
- proposition
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From mean +? -ing.
Verb
meaning
- present participle of mean
Adjective
meaning (comparative more meaning, superlative most meaning)
- Having a (specified) intention.
- Expressing some intention or significance; meaningful.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, "William Wilson"
- I might, to-day, have been a better, and thus a happier man, had I less frequently rejected the counsels embodied in those meaning whispers which I then but too cordially hated and too bitterly despised.
- 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus 2014, p. 160:
- [T]he new friends […] knew nothing and did not particularly care to hear about the beautiful mother with her long, meaning looks and liquid dresses and distant smile.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, "William Wilson"
References
- meaning at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- amening
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doggerel
English
Alternative forms
- doggrel
Etymology
Probably from dog +? -rel (“pejorative suffix”), akin to Dog Latin, late 14th c.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d?????l/
Adjective
doggerel (not comparable)
- (poetry) Of a crude or irregular construction.
Usage notes
The word was originally applied to humorous verse, but now refers to verse lacking artistry or meaning.
Translations
Noun
doggerel (countable and uncountable, plural doggerels)
- (poetry) A comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure.
Translations
References
- Webster, Noah (1828) , “doggerel”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language
- doggerel in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “doggerel” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- "doggerel" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
- “doggerel”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989)
- Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)
Further reading
- doggerel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- relogged
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