Usually means: Indicates, represents, or stands for.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word signifies:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. signifies: Merriam-Webster
  2. signifies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. signifies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. signifies: Vocabulary.com
  5. Signifies, signifies: Wordnik
  6. signifies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. signifies: Wiktionary
  8. signifies: Dictionary.com
  9. signifies: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. signifies: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. signifies: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. signifies: Encyclopedia

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

(Note: See signify as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (signify)

verb:  To create a sign out of something.
verb:  To give (something) a meaning or an importance.
verb:  To show one’s intentions with a sign etc.; to indicate, announce.
verb:  To mean; to betoken.
verb:  To make a difference; to matter (in negative or interrogative expressions).
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