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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Meantperf. and part. pass. of to mean.

    By Silvia if thy charming self be meant;
    If friendship be thy virgin vows extent:
    O! let me in Aminta’s praises join;
    Her’s my esteem shall be, my passion thine. Matthew Prior.

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  1. meant

    The general definition of "meant" is intended or designed for a specific purpose or to convey a particular message or idea. It refers to something that is done or said with a deliberate intention or a certain significance behind it.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Meant

    of Mean

  2. Meant

    imp. & p. p. of Mean

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Meant

    pa.t. and pa.p. of mean (v.t.).

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'meant' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #911

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'meant' in Written Corpus Frequency: #800

Anagrams for meant »

  1. manet

  2. Manet

  3. ament

  4. teman

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of meant in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of meant in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of meant in a Sentence

  1. Leanna Harris:

    Ross is and was and will be, if we have more children, a wonderful father, ross is a wonderful daddy and leader for our household. Cooper meant the world to him.

  2. Larry Summers:

    We were providing demand well in excess over the next couple of years of any plausible estimate of the economy’s potential to produce, and that meant substantial price increases.

  3. Bernie Sanders:

    If they're going to engage in this kind of attack, they need to understand we're not going to stand there and take it. i am not making that threat. I don't know what Tad meant by that.

  4. Oskar Schindler:

    The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were forced to wear Jewish stars, and people were herded and shut up into ghettos. Then, in the years '41 and '42 there was plenty of public evidence of pure sadism. With people behaving like pigs, I felt the Jews were being destroyed. I had to help them. There was no choice.

  5. Don Cherry:

    I know what I said and I meant it, everybody in Canada should wear a poppy to honor our fallen soldiers.

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