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verb
(past & past part. meant; pres. part. meaning)
1.
Mean or intend to express or convey.  Synonym: intend.  "What do his words intend?"
2.
Have as a logical consequence.  Synonyms: entail, imply.
3.
Denote or connote.  Synonyms: intend, signify, stand for.  "An example sentence would show what this word means"
4.
Have in mind as a purpose.  Synonyms: intend, think.  "I only meant to help you" , "She didn't think to harm me" , "We thought to return early that night"
5.
Have a specified degree of importance.  "Happiness means everything"
6.
Intend to refer to.  Synonyms: have in mind, think of.  "Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!"
7.
Destine or designate for a certain purpose.
adjective
1.
Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.  Synonym: average.  "Of average height for his age" , "The mean annual rainfall"
2.
Characterized by malice.  Synonym: hateful.  "In a mean mood"
3.
Having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality.  Synonyms: base, meanspirited.  "Taking a mean advantage" , "Chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort" , "Something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"
4.
Excellent.
5.
Marked by poverty befitting a beggar.  Synonym: beggarly.  "A mean hut"
6.
(used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity.  Synonyms: mingy, miserly, tight.  "He left a miserly tip"
7.
(used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt.  Synonym: beggarly.
8.
Of no value or worth.  Synonym: bastardly.
noun
1.
An average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n.  Synonym: mean value.



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"Mean" Quotes from Famous Books



... to be sold; and if he cries the ivory tube at forty purses, it must be worth as much or more, on some account or other which does not appear. He will come by presently, when we will call him, and you shall satisfy yourself: in the mean time sit down on my ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments Complete • Anonymous
... protagonist, Monsieur? Surely you don't mean to revive the allegorical personages in the mysteries of the ...
— The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 • Various
... mean?" Nell demanded, as she read the note for perhaps the twentieth time. "What can it possibly mean? Why should Lord Vernon wish to appear ill when ...
— Affairs of State • Burton E. Stevenson
... Pierce, no mean judge of men, there was nothing to worry about in that direction. That snake, he considered, was scotched. It might take time for said snake, who was a young snake with a head full of poison (his uncomplimentary metaphor referred, I need hardly state, to Mr. Harrington Surtaine), to come ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... precipice. This incident inspired hope. It did more. It gave a moment's confidence, and the certainty that all was not lost. They looked at each other, and wept tears of joy. But soon that momentary hope vanished, and uncertainty returned. After all, what did the stranger's gesture mean? He might have seen her—but how? He might reach her, but would she be safe from harm? Could such a thing be hoped for? Would she not, rather, be all marred and mutilated? Dared they hope for any thing better? They dared not. And now they sat once more, as sad as before, and their short-lived ...
— The American Baron • James De Mille


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