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Meaning may refer to:

Theoretic

• Meaning (linguistics), meaning which is communicated through the use of language
• Meaning (non-linguistic), extra-linguistic meaning (intentional communication without the use of language), and natural meaning, where no intentions are involved at all
• Meaning (semiotics) has to do with the distribution of signs in sign relations
• Meaning as a relationship between ontology and truth
• Meaning as a reference or equivalence
• Meaning (philosophy of language)
• Meaning as values, a value system or as derived from value theory
• Meaning (existential), as it is understood in contemporary existentialism
• The meaning of life, a notion concerning the nature of human existence

See also

• Semantics for a general article on the study of meaning
• the episode Meaning of House
• Hermeneutics
• Linguistics
• Logotherapy

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Meaning

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English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -iːnɪŋ

Verb

meaning

1. Present participle of mean.

Noun

meaning (plural meanings)

1. The symbolic value of something.
2. The significance of a thing, as "the meaning of life"
3. (semantics) The objects or concept that a word or phrase denotes, or that which a sentence says.

Synonyms

• sense

Hyponyms

• proposition

Derived terms

• meaning of life
• meaningful
• meaningless
• meaninglessly
• meaninglessness

Translations

Anagrams

• Anagrams of aegimnn
• amening