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mean   (TTS Sound)

The noun mean has 1 sense

• mean, mean value -- (an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n)

The verb mean has 7 senses

• mean, intend -- (mean or intend to express or convey; "You never understand what I mean!"; "what do his words intend?")


• entail, imply, mean -- (have as a logical consequence; "The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers")


• mean, intend, signify, stand for -- (denote or connote; "`maison' means `house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means")


• intend, mean, think -- (have in mind as a purpose; "I mean no harm"; "I only meant to help you"; "She didn't think to harm me"; "We thought to return early that night")


• mean -- (have a specified degree of importance; "My ex-husband means nothing to me"; "Happiness means everything")


• think of, have in mind, mean -- (intend to refer to; "I'm thinking of good food when I talk about France"; "Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!")


• mean -- (destine or designate for a certain purpose; "These flowers were meant for you")

The adj mean has 8 senses

• average, mean -- (approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value; "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"; "of average height for his age"; "the mean annual rainfall")


• hateful, mean -- (characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood")


• base, mean, meanspirited -- (having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics")


• mean -- (excellent; "famous for a mean backhand")


• beggarly, mean -- (marked by poverty befitting a beggar; "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut")


• mean, mingy, miserly, tight -- ((used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip")


• beggarly, mean -- ((used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt)


• bastardly, mean -- (of no value or worth; "I was caught in the bastardly traffic")