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Definition of Meanings
1. meaning [n] - See also: meaning
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meanings
Literary usage of Meanings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practical Study of Languages: A Guide for Teachers and Learners by Henry Sweet (1906)
"In them the meanings and definitions are given in a lump without any ...
meanings The first business of a dictionary is to give the meanings of the ..."
2. Poetry as a Representative Art: An Essay in Comparative Aesthetics by George Lansing Raymond (1899)
"meanings OF WORDS AS DEVELOPED BY ASSOCIATION AND COMPARISON. Instinctive Ejaculatory
Sounds, and Reflective Imitative Sounds, becoming words by Agreement, ..."
3. An Advanced English Grammar: With Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge, Frank Edgar Farley (1913)
"The variety of meanings which subordinate clauses may express is great, but most
of these meanings come under the following heads : — (1) place or time, ..."
4. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"More progress will be made, therefore, if instead of consider- int what courts
have said about waiver, an analysis is attempted of the various meanings ..."
5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"So I do not ' observe' meanings; the word implies a more active attitude than is
correct for meanings; I take the meanings as given to me from without. ..."
6. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin, Robert Campbell (1880)
"Different meanings of Equity. As I remarked in the Lecture before the last, the
original jus gentium is the universal and ..."
7. The New Realism: Coöperative Studies in Philosophy by Edwin Bissell Holt (1912)
"But with these derived meanings we here have nothing to do. They are particular
cases of independence in which the circumstances of the application have vj ..."
8. A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental by David Hume (1890)
"Between these two meanings of existence—its mean- ^f£°n~f ing as ... But by help
of Locke's equivocation between the two meanings of existence, ..."
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