Definition/Meaning of mean

• English - Verb: mean (third-person singular simple present means, present participle meaning, simple past and past participle meant) (transitive) To intend .: To intend , to plan (to do); to have as one's intention. I didn't mean to knock your tooth out. Do you mean to say you regret it after all? (intransitive) To have as intentions of a given kind. Don't be angry; she meant well. (passive, regional,…
• English - Adjective: mean (comparative meaner, superlative meanest) (obsolete) Common ; general . (archaic) Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble . a mean abode a man of mean parentage Low in quality or degree; inferior ; poor ; shabby . a mean dress a mean appearance Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded ; spiritless ; base . You hurt her feelings - that was a mean thing to…
• English - Noun: mean (plural means) (also, in a singular sense) A method or course of action used to achieve some result. 1860, William Hamilton, Lectures on Metaphysics: Philosophical doubt is not an end, but a mean . 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 5, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC: To say truth, it is a meane full of…
• English - Anagrams: Amen , amen , mane , MENA , NAmE , name , NEMA , NMEA
• English - Etymology: Etymology 1. From Middle English menen (“to intend; remember; lament; comfort”), from Old English mǣnan (“to mean, complain”), Proto-West Germanic *mainijan, from Proto-Germanic *mainijaną (“to mean, think; complain”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyn- (“to think”), or perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *meyno-, extended form of Proto-Indo-European *mey-. Germanic cognates include West Frisian miene…