meant
inflected form of “mean” — mean or intend to express or convey
An inflected form of mean · inflected form.
How often you will meet it
Rank 680 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 27,804 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.013% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
verb
- mean or intend to express or convey also: intend You never understand what I mean!what do his words intend?
- have as a logical consequence also: entail, imply The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers
- denote or connote also: intend, signify, stand for `maison' means `house' in FrenchAn example sentence would show what this word means
- have in mind as a purpose also: intend, think I mean no harmI only meant to help you
- have a specified degree of importance My ex-husband means nothing to meHappiness means everything
- intend to refer to also: think of, have in mind I'm thinking of good food when I talk about FranceYes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!
meant 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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So they meant to treat me like a child.
The Betrayal · E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim · Chapter 1
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Before my own time there was up I had learned to know what that meant.
Ethan Frome · Edith Wharton · Chapter 1
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She read the account over many times, with painstaking effort to understand that this meant Johnny McLean.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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They hadn't meant to take back the compliment, good simple souls, and didn't know they had done it.
Following the Equator — Part 1 · Mark Twain · Chapter 1
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We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1