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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mean \Mean\ (m[=e]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Meant (m[e^]nt); p.
   pr. & vb. n. Meaning.] [OE. menen, AS. m[=ae]nan to recite,
   tell, intend, wish; akin to OS. m[=e]nian to have in mind,
   mean, D. meenen, G. meinen, OHG. meinan, Icel. meina, Sw.
   mena, Dan. mene, and to E. mind. [root]104. See Mind, and
   cf. Moan.]
   1. To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to
      intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do?
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            What mean ye by this service ?        --Ex. xii. 26.
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            Ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto
            good.                                 --Gen. 1. 20.
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            I am not a Spaniard
            To say that it is yours and not to mean it.
                                                  --Longfellow.
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   2. To signify; to indicate; to import; to denote.
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            What mean these seven ewe lambs ?     --Gen. xxi.
                                                  29.
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            Go ye, and learn what that meaneth.   --Matt. ix.
                                                  13.
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Meant \Meant\,
   imp. & p. p. of Mean.
   [1913 Webster] Meantime

Thesaurus Results for Meant:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
advised, aimed, aimed at, assumed, calculated, conscious, considered, contemplated, deliberate, deliberated, designed, envisaged, envisioned, hinted, implicated, implied, indicated, inferred, intended, intentional, intimated, involved, knowing, meditated, of design, planned, presumed, presupposed, projected, proposed, purposed, purposeful, purposive, studied, suggested, supposed, teleological, voluntary, willful, witting
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