Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Preterit and past participle of mean.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
mean .
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mean .
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Examples
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This new face which Nature turned to him was a glorified face, and some way _it meant what he meant_.
Romance Island Zona Gale 1906
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And you meant to write, ... you _meant_! and went to walk in 'Poet's lane' instead, (in the 'Aonius of Highgate') which I remember to have read of -- does not Hunt speak of it in his Memoirs?
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850
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_meant_ well, of course he had to suffer; but when a king said one thing, was he not to be supposed to have meant another?
Prince Prigio Andrew Lang 1878
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I’m told this because they weren’t meant to be stuck together like that and had they been meant* to be this way we wouldn’t have been born with nerves that run down along the sides of each toe.
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Surely they not only meant, but _must have meant_, the front that _then_ was, in other words, the west front as it is _now_. "
The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See W.D. Sweeting
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In that context the term meant a noble person, as in nobleman, i.e. a member of the nobility.
Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D.: 'Tis The Season -- With Confucius Ph.D. Rodney L. Taylor 2011
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In that context the term meant a noble person, as in nobleman, i.e. a member of the nobility.
Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D.: 'Tis The Season -- With Confucius Ph.D. Rodney L. Taylor 2011
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The term meant the U.S. might have to tolerate the inevitable “bakshish,” the small cost-of-doing-business bribes that were part of Afghan culture.
Obama’s Wars Bob Woodward 2010
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Initially the term meant the oppressed nations living under the yoke of the Islamic empire.
The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010
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The United States was holding hundreds of alleged terrorists in a detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, some of them in solitary confinement and many designated as “illegal enemy combatants,” a term meant to exempt them from the rights and protections that were supposed to be accorded to prisoners of war.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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