Usually means: Purposeful aim guiding planned action.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. intention: Merriam-Webster
  2. intention: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. intention: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. intention: Collins English Dictionary
  5. intention: Vocabulary.com
  6. Intention, intention: Wordnik
  7. intention: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. intention: Wiktionary
  9. intention: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. intention: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. intention: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. intention: Dictionary.com
  13. intention: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Intention (criminal), Intention (criminal law), Intention (film), Intention: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Intention: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. intention: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. intention: Rhymezone
  18. intention, intention (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. intention: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. intention: FreeDictionary.org
  21. intention: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. intention: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. intention: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. intention: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. intention: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Error-Proofing Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. intention: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intention: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. intention: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. intention: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. intention: Idioms
  2. intention: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  2. Intention: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  4. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intention: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See intentioning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A course of action that a person intends to follow.
noun:  The goal or purpose.
noun:  (obsolete) Tension; straining, stretching.
noun:  A stretching or bending of the mind toward an object or a purpose (an intent); closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.
noun:  (obsolete) The object toward which the thoughts are directed; end; aim.
noun:  (obsolete) Any mental apprehension of an object.
noun:  (medicine) The process of the healing of a wound.
verb:  To intend.

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