Usually means: Intended or implied in meaning.
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  1. meant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. meant: Merriam-Webster
  3. meant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. meant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. meant: Collins English Dictionary
  6. meant: Vocabulary.com
  7. Meant, mean't, meant: Wordnik
  8. meant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. meant: Wiktionary
  10. meant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. meant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. meant: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Meant, meant: Dictionary.com
  14. meant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Meant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Meant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. meant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Meant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. meant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. meant: FreeDictionary.org
  21. meant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. meant: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. meant: Legal dictionary
  2. meant: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. meant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. meant: Medical dictionary

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  1. meant: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To intend.
verb:  (transitive) To intend, to plan (to do); to have as one's intention.
verb:  (intransitive) To have as intentions of a given kind.
verb:  (transitive, usually in passive) To intend (something) for a given purpose or fate; to predestine.
verb:  (transitive) To intend an ensuing comment or statement as an explanation.
verb:  To convey (a meaning).
verb:  (transitive) To convey (a given sense); to signify, or indicate (an object or idea).
verb:  (transitive) Of a word, symbol etc: to have reference to, to signify.
verb:  (transitive) Of a person (or animal etc): to intend to express, to imply, to hint at, to allude.
verb:  (transitive) To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
verb:  (transitive) To cause or produce (a given result); to bring about (a given result).
verb:  (usually with to) To be of some level of importance.
verb:  (Ireland, UK regional) To lament.
adjective:  (obsolete) Common; general.
adjective:  (now rare) Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.
adjective:  Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.
adjective:  Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.
adjective:  Of little value or worth; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
adjective:  (chiefly UK) Ungenerous; stingy; tight-fisted.
adjective:  Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating.
adjective:  Intending to cause harm, successfully or otherwise; bearing ill will towards another.
adjective:  Powerful; fierce; strong.
adjective:  (colloquial) Hearty; spicy.
adjective:  (colloquial) Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
adjective:  (informal, often childish) Difficult, tricky.
adjective:  Having the mean (see noun below) as its value; average.
adjective:  (obsolete) Middling; intermediate; moderately good, tolerable.
noun:  (now chiefly in the plural) A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
noun:  (obsolete, in the singular) An intermediate step or intermediate steps.
noun:  Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.
noun:  (music, now historical) The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part in polyphonic music; an alto instrument.
noun:  (statistics) The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number of terms; the arithmetic mean.
noun:  (mathematics) Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number representative of its arguments; or, the number so yielded; a measure of central tendency.
noun:  (mathematics) Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and 3 in 1:2=3:6.
noun:  (web development) Acronym of MongoDB, Express.js, AngularJS, Node.js: a software stack for developing web sites with both client-side and server-side use of JavaScript.
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