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1. | [ verb ] mean or intend to express or convey | |
Synonyms: | intend | |
Examples: | "You never understand what I mean!" "what do his words intend?" |
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Related terms: | convey symbolize denote drive spell aim signify intent | |
2. | [ verb ] have as a logical consequence | |
Synonyms: | entail imply | |
Examples: | "The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers" |
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Related terms: | necessitate deduction | |
3. | [ verb ] denote or connote | |
Synonyms: | signify stand_for intend | |
Examples: | "`maison' means `house' in French" "An example sentence would show what this word means" |
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Related terms: | signify meaning meaning sign | |
4. | [ verb ] have in mind as a purpose | |
Synonyms: | intend think | |
Examples: | "I mean no harm" "I only meant to help you" "She didn't think to harm me" "We thought to return early that night" |
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Related terms: | shall will plan aim design intention | |
5. | [ adjective ] (statistics) approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value | |
Synonyms: | average | |
Examples: | "the average income in New England is below that of the nation" "of average height for his age" "the mean annual rainfall" |
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Related terms: | statistics normal | |
6. | [ noun ] (mathematics,statistics) an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n | |
Synonyms: | mean_value | |
Related terms: | average arithmetic_mean geometric_mean harmonic_mean statistics | |
7. | [ verb ] have a specified degree of importance | |
Examples: | "My ex-husband means nothing to me" "Happiness means everything" |
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8. | [ verb ] intend to refer to | |
Synonyms: | think_of have_in_mind | |
Examples: | "I'm thinking of good food when I talk about France" "Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!" |
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Related terms: | relate associate mention | |
9. | [ adjective ] characterized by malice | |
Synonyms: | hateful spiteful | |
Examples: | "a hateful thing to do" "in a mean mood" |
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Related terms: | nasty | |
10. | [ adjective ] having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality | |
Synonyms: | meanspirited base | |
Examples: | "liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics" |
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Related terms: | ignoble | |
11. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 25319 | |
12. | [ adjective ] used of persons or behavior; characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity | |
Synonyms: | tight miserly small little mingy | |
Examples: | "a mean person" "he left a miserly tip" |
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Related terms: | stingy | |
13. | [ adjective ] used of sums of money; so small in amount as to deserve contempt | |
Synonyms: | beggarly | |
Related terms: | stingy | |
14. | [ adjective ] (slang) excellent | |
Examples: | "famous for a mean backhand" |
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Related terms: | cant skilled | |
15. | [ adjective ] marked by poverty befitting a beggar | |
Synonyms: | beggarly | |
Examples: | "a beggarly existence in the slums" "a mean hut" |
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Related terms: | poor | |
16. | [ verb ] destine or designate for a certain purpose | |
Examples: | "These flowers were meant for you" |
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Related terms: | intend | |
Similar spelling: |
Mehan meany men Meehan meanie Meaney menu Mena Mein mem memo meme |