Meaning
of Mean
That which is meant or intended; intent; purpose; aim; object; as, a mischievous meaning was apparent.
That which is signified, whether by act lanquage; signification; sence; import; as, the meaning of a hint.
Sense; power of thinking.
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Meaning Quotations
Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Maya Angelou
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston Churchill
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus
In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.
Steve Jobs
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
C. S. Lewis
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. Lewis
Meaning Translations
meaning in Afrikaans is plan, betekenis
meaning in Danish is betydning, hensigt
meaning in Dutch is doel, plan, bedoeling, strekking
meaning in Finnish is merkitys
meaning in French is sens, intention, importance, signification
meaning in Italian is levatura
meaning in Latin is sententia
meaning in Spanish is significacion
meaning in Swedish is betyder, betydelse
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