- nounmeans (noun) · means (plural noun)
- (means of somethingmeans to do something)an action or system by which a result is brought about; a method:"resolving disputes by peaceful means" · "these pledges are a means to avoid prosecution"
- money; financial resources:"he came from a family of very modest means" · "prospective students without the means to attend Cornell"
- wealth:"exclusive hotels that are priced so that only people of means can stay"
- resources; capability:"every country in the world has the means to make ethanol"
Originlate Middle English: plural of mean, the early sense being ‘intermediary’.verbmeans (third person present)- intend to convey, indicate, or refer to (a particular thing or notion); signify:"I don't know what you mean" · "he was asked to clarify what his remarks meant" · "I meant you, not Jones"
- (of a word) have (something) as its signification in the same language or its equivalent in another language:"its name means “painted rock” in Cherokee"
- genuinely intend to convey or express (something):"when she said that before, she meant it"
- (mean something to)be of some specified importance to (someone), especially as a source of benefit or object of affection:"animals have always meant more to him than people"
- intend (something) to occur or be the case:"they mean no harm" · "it was meant to be a secret"
- (be meant to do something)be supposed or intended to do something:"we were meant to go over yesterday"
- (be meant for)design or destine for a particular purpose:"the jacket was meant for a much larger person"
- (mean something by)have as a motive or excuse in explanation:"what do you mean by leaving me out here in the cold?"
- have as a consequence or result:"the proposals are likely to mean another hundred closures" · "heavy rain meant that the ground was waterlogged"
- necessarily or usually entail or involve:"coal stoves mean a lot of smoke"
OriginOld English mænan, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch meenen and German meinen, from an Indo-European root shared by mind.nounmeans (plural noun)- the value obtained by dividing the sum of several quantities by their number; an average. See also arithmetic mean, geometric mean."acid output was calculated by taking the mean of all three samples"
- a condition, quality, or course of action equally removed from two opposite (usually unsatisfactory) extremes:"the mean between two extremes"
OriginMiddle English: from Old French meien, from Latin medianus ‘middle’ (see median).Similar and Opposite Wordsnoun- an action or system by which a result is brought about; a method:
- money; financial resources:
verb- intend to convey, indicate, or refer to (a particular thing or notion); signify:
- intend (something) to occur or be the case:
- have as a consequence or result:
noun- a condition, quality, or course of action equally removed from two opposite (usually unsatisfactory) extremes:
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- Learn more:✕This summary was generated using AI based on multiple online sources. To view the original source information, use the "Learn more" links.: to determine or identify the essential qualities or meaning of whatever defines us as human b : to discover and set forth the meaning of (something, such as a word)www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/definethe act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear:www.dictionary.com/browse/definition
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