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MEANING
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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1998
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© Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language 1998, originally published by Oxford University Press 1998. (Hide copyright information)
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MEANING. 1. The purport or message conveyed by WORDS,
PHRASES,
SENTENCES,
SIGNS,
SYMBOLS, and the like:
‘Semantics’ means ‘the study of meaning’;
A red traffic light means drivers have to stop and a green one means they can go.
2. Signification, sense, interpretation, as in
The Meaning of Meaning, the title of a book on
SEMANTICS by C. K. Ogden & I. A. Richards (1923); any instance of these, as in
What is the meaning of the word ‘semantics’? 3. What a speaker or writer intends:
What do you mean?;
They don't mean any harm. See
LANGUAGE,
SEMIOTICS.
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year
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
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