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Significance   /səgnˈɪfɪkəns/  /sɪgnˈɪfɪkəns/   Listen
Significance

noun
1.
The quality of being significant.
2.
A meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred.  Synonyms: implication, import.  "The expectation was spread both by word and by implication"
3.
The message that is intended or expressed or signified.  Synonyms: import, meaning, signification.  "The significance of a red traffic light" , "The signification of Chinese characters" , "The import of his announcement was ambiguous"





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"Significance" Quotes from Famous Books



... use this one in a general sense. But I want to help you to keep it from acquiring a more restricted significance." ...
— The Fruit of the Tree • Edith Wharton
... you this morning, for I am convinced that never in the world's history did the age beckon with so eager a gesture to the young men on the threshold of active life. Never indeed in the past, and certainly never in the future, was there or will there be a time more deeply fraught with significance. And as I gaze upon your keen faces it seems almost as though the world had amassed all the problems that now confront us merely in order to give you ...
— Pipefuls • Christopher Morley
... Faraday, then lecturer in natural history; and when Faraday died, Tyndall, by popular acclaim, was made Fullerian Lecturer and took Faraday's place. This was to be his life-work, and it so placed him before the world that all he said or did had a wide significance and an ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists • Elbert Hubbard
... which turned into hysterical laughter and tears. Of course I am not a prophet; I am merely a modest thinker, but no one would succeed in convincing my lady admirers that there is no prophetic meaning and significance in my speeches. ...
— The Crushed Flower and Other Stories • Leonid Andreyev
... President's messages and addresses since the United States was forced to take up arms against Germany. These pages may be said to picture not only official phases of the great crisis, but also the highest significance of liberty and democracy and the reactions of President and people to the great developments of the times. The second Inaugural Address with its sense of solemn responsibility serves as a prophecy as well as prelude to the declaration ...
— In Our First Year of the War - Messages and Addresses to the Congress and the People, - March 5, 1917 to January 6, 1918 • Woodrow Wilson


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