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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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emphasis
English
Etymology
From Latin emphasis, from Ancient Greek ??????? (émphasis, “significance”), from ??????? (emphaín?, “I present, I indicate”), from ??- (en-, “in”) + ????? (phaín?, “I show”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??mf?s?s/
- IPA(key): [???f?s?s], [?e?f?s?s], [???f?s?s], [?e?f?s?s]
Noun
emphasis (countable and uncountable, plural emphases)
- Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.
- He paused for emphasis before saying who had won.
- Special attention or prominence given to something.
- Anglia TV's emphasis is on Norwich and district.
- Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.
- He used a yellow highlighter to indicate where to give emphasis in his speech.
- (phonology) The phonetic or phonological feature that distinguishes emphatic consonants from other consonants.
- (typography) The use of boldface, italics, or other such formatting to highlight text. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Related terms
- emphasise, emphasize
- emphatic
Translations
Anagrams
- misshape
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ??????? (émphasis, “significance”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?em.p?a.sis/, [??mp?äs??s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?em.fa.sis/, [??mf?s?is]
Noun
emphasis f (genitive emphasis); third declension
- emphasis
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem).
References
- emphasis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- emphasis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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