Phrase Hound found 24 phrases and 13 compound words that contain meaning. The most common are listed below. Open meaning in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 24
- meaning of lifeA hypothetical answer to all of life's ultimate questions; the purpose or raison d'être of human life.
- get the meaningSynonym of take the meaning: To interpret someone's argument.
- take the meaningTo interpret someone's argument.
- taking the meaningpresent participle and gerund of take the meaning
- took the meaningsimple past of take the meaning
- takes the meaningthird-person singular simple present indicative of take the meaning: To interpret someone's argument.
- taken the meaningpast participle of take the meaning: To interpret someone's argument.
- Word meaning
- Special meaning
- Real Meaning
- meaning to saypresent participle and gerund of mean to say
- well-meaningWith good intentions, often used to reflect positively on a negative outcome or situation.
- double meaningThe situation in which a word or phrase has two different, often opposite, meanings. For example, wicked can mean both "good" and "bad".
- loan meaningA meaning that has been borrowed from a word in another language, through a process of semantic loan.
- meaning-text theoryA theoretical linguistic framework for the construction of models of natural language, based on the principle that language consists of a mapping from the semantics of an utterance to its form or text.
- meaning the world topresent participle and gerund of mean the world to
- meaning businesspresent participle and gerund of mean business
- meaning wellpresent participle and gerund of mean well
- plain meaning ruleOne of three rules of statutory construction traditionally applied by English courts, which dictates that statutes are to be interpreted using the ordinary meaning of the language of the statute.
- meaning the whole world topresent participle and gerund of mean the whole world to
- meaning everything topresent participle and gerund of mean everything to
- meaning-text modelA model of natural language constructed according to meaning-text theory.
- self-referential meaningMeaning that relies on self-reference in the text being understood.
- plain meaning rulesplural of plain meaning rule: One of three rules of statutory construction traditionally applied by English courts, which dictates that statutes are to be interpreted using the ordinary meaning of the language of the statute.
Compound words 13
- meaningfulHaving meaning, significant.
- unmeaningHaving no meaning or significance.
- antimeaningDeliberate absence of meaning.
- meaninglyWith an implied meaning; with significance; meaningfully.
- undermeaningAn underlying or hidden meaning.
- countermeaningA contrasting meaning.
- foremeaningA meaning determined or assumed in advance.
- meaningnessQuality of having a meaning; meaningfulness.
- nonmeaningAbsence of meaning.
- submeaningA deeper or underlying meaning.