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MEANING
Definition of MEANING
Wiktionary has no entry for MEANING itself. This is its base word, MEAN.
verb
To intend. To intend, to plan (to do); to have as one's intention.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for MEAN.
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 (“to deem, think”) (Old Frisian mēna (“to signify”)), Dutch menen (“to believe, think, mean”) (Middle Dutch menen (“to think, intend”)), German meinen (“to think, mean, believe”), Old Saxon mēnian. Indo-European cognates include Old Irish mían (“wish, desire”) and Polish mienić (“to signify, believe”). Non-Indo-European cognates include Finnish mainita (“to mention”), Finnish meinata (“to mean, to plan, to intend”) Estonian mainima (“to mention”), Northern Sami máinnastit (“to tell”). Related to moan.
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Word DNA
Line of descent
8 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
51st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
0%
of traced words share this origin (32)
branch · 0.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, MEAN · 11 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MEANING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 145, 12 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First found by a player on Day 145, 12 October 2026.
Built from these letters
MEANING starts with M and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGIMNN - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. N appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start MEANIN
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
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