means
thing or person that acts to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
How often you will meet it
Rank 436 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 46,307 times across 175,177 chapters — 0.022% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- thing or person that acts to produce a particular effect or achieve an end also: agency, way a means of controlan example is the best agency of instruction
- an instrumentality for accomplishing some end
- considerable capital (wealth or income) also: substance he is a man of means
means in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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I wonder can you realize all that that means?
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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What means this crowd of men And women here in peaceful Bethlehem?
The White Christmas and other Merry · Walter Ben Hare · Chapter 1
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It means so much to them, and only forty-five can go away happy.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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Pray, what means have you To keep me from the galleys, or the gallows?
The White Devil · John Webster · Chapter 1
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The vows of our Order by no means hinder us from taking part in the affairs of our own country.
A Knight of the White Cross · G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · Chapter 1