mean

Etymology 1
From, from , , from , from , or perhaps from , extended form of.

Germanic cognates include 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Indo-European cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. Related to.

Verb

 * 1) To intend.
 * 2)  To intend, to plan (to do); to have as one's intention.
 * 3)  To have as intentions of a given kind.
 * 4)  To intend (something) for a given purpose or fate; to predestine.
 * 5)  To intend an ensuing comment or statement as an explanation.
 * 6) To convey (a meaning).
 * 7)  To convey (a given sense); to signify, or indicate (an object or idea).
 * 8)  Of a word, symbol etc: to have reference to, to signify.
 * 9)  Of a person (or animal etc): to intend to express, to imply, to hint at, to allude.
 * 10)  To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
 * 11)  To cause or produce (a given result); to bring about (a given result).
 * 12)  To be of some level of importance.
 * That little dog meant everything to me.
 * Formality and titles mean nothing in their circle.
 * 1) To convey (a meaning).
 * 2)  To convey (a given sense); to signify, or indicate (an object or idea).
 * 3)  Of a word, symbol etc: to have reference to, to signify.
 * 4)  Of a person (or animal etc): to intend to express, to imply, to hint at, to allude.
 * 5)  To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
 * 6)  To cause or produce (a given result); to bring about (a given result).
 * 7)  To be of some level of importance.
 * That little dog meant everything to me.
 * Formality and titles mean nothing in their circle.
 * 1)  To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
 * 2)  To cause or produce (a given result); to bring about (a given result).
 * 3)  To be of some level of importance.
 * That little dog meant everything to me.
 * Formality and titles mean nothing in their circle.
 * 1)  To cause or produce (a given result); to bring about (a given result).
 * 2)  To be of some level of importance.
 * That little dog meant everything to me.
 * Formality and titles mean nothing in their circle.
 * 1)  To be of some level of importance.
 * That little dog meant everything to me.
 * Formality and titles mean nothing in their circle.

Synonyms

 * convey, indicate, signify
 * imply, mean to say
 * intend
 * be serious
 * bring about, cause, lead to, result in
 * bring about, cause, lead to, result in

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎤᏰᎸᎭ
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:, van plan zijn
 * Esperanto: intenci
 * Finnish:
 * French: avoir l'intention, entendre faire
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: הִתְכַּוֵּן
 * Hungarian:, , , szándékában áll
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:, avere intenzione, aver l'intenzione,
 * Japanese:, するつもり
 * Korean:
 * Latin:, habeo in animo
 * Macedonian: сака
 * Old English: þenċan,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, avea intenția,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sadyain, kusain, tikisin
 * Telugu: పధకము వేయు, అనుకోవడము
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: збира́тися
 * Walloon:


 * Bulgarian: имам намерение
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: intenci
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:
 * Hebrew: הִתְכַּוֵּן
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: meina,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, するつもり
 * Korean:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: అర్ధం ఏమిటి
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: збира́тися


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: essere fatto per
 * Russian: ,
 * Tagalog: inilaan


 * Arabic: عَنَى
 * Azerbaijani:, mənaya gəlmək
 * Belarusian: азнача́ць, зна́чыць
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chickasaw: aachi
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 是……的意思
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, willen zeggen,
 * Esperanto: voli diri, signifi
 * Estonian: tähendama
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: querer dicir,
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: meina,
 * Italian:, volere dire
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: មានន័យ, បានន័យ
 * Korean: ,
 * Lao: ກິນຄວາມ, ຜັດວ່າ, ຫມາຽ
 * Latin: indicō, significō
 * Latvian: nozīmēt
 * Lithuanian: reikšti
 * Macedonian: зна́чи
 * Mongolian:
 * Ngazidja Comorian: fasiri
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: innebære
 * Nynorsk: innebere, tyda
 * Old English: mǣnan, ġetācnian
 * Persian: معنی کردن
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ciallaich
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: значити
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: znamenať
 * Slovene: pomeniti
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: ibig sabihin
 * Tajik: ифода кардан, маънӣ кардан
 * Telugu: అనుకొనుట
 * Thai: หมายถึง,
 * Turkish: anlama gelmek,, , manasına gelmek,
 * Ukrainian: означа́ти, зна́чити
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: عَنَى, قَصَدَ
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: esan nahi izan, adierazi
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: voler dir,
 * Chickasaw: aachi
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ……的意思是……
 * Czech:
 * Danish: mene
 * Dutch:, willen zeggen,
 * Esperanto: signifi
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: querer dicir,
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σημαίνω
 * Hebrew: התכוון
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: meina,
 * Ingrian: merkitä, tähentää
 * Interlingua: significar
 * Italian: volere dire,
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ចង់ថា, ចង់និយាយ, មានន័យ
 * Korean:
 * Lao:
 * Latin: significo
 * Lithuanian: reikšti
 * Old English: mǣnan, ġetācnian
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: vrea să spună,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:, , syfta på
 * Tagalog: mangahulugan, ipakahulugan
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: หมายถึง
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: có nghĩa là
 * Walloon:, voleur dire
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: באַטײַטן


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: הִתְכַּוֵּן
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Polish:


 * Azerbaijani: nəzərdə tutmaq
 * Catalan: voler dir
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * German:
 * Hebrew: הִתְכַּוֵּן
 * Hungarian: komolyan gondol
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Old English: mǣnan
 * Portuguese: falar sério
 * Romanian: am convingerea
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: decir en serio
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: ,


 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: signifi
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Italian: volere dire, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 초래(招來)하다
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: (un resultado),
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian: зна́чити, означа́ти


 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: tenerci


 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:,  ,  ,
 * Interlingua:,  , ,   ,

Verb

 * 1)  To lament.
 * 2) * 1560 (1677), Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. iii. (1677), page 144:
 * They were forced to mean our estate to the Queen of England.
 * They were forced to mean our estate to the Queen of England.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish: ,


 * Portuguese: apiedar-se, compadecer-se
 * Spanish: ,

Etymology 2
From, , from , , from , from , from. .

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬).

Adjective

 * 1)  Common; general.
 * 2)  Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.
 * 3) Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.
 * 4) Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.
 * 5) Of little value or worth; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
 * 6)  Ungenerous; stingy; tight-fisted.
 * 7) Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating.
 * 8) Intending to cause harm, successfully or otherwise; bearing ill will towards another.
 * 9) Powerful; fierce; strong.
 * 10)  Hearty; spicy.
 * 11)  Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
 * 12)  Difficult, tricky.
 * 1) Of little value or worth; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
 * 2)  Ungenerous; stingy; tight-fisted.
 * 3) Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating.
 * 4) Intending to cause harm, successfully or otherwise; bearing ill will towards another.
 * 5) Powerful; fierce; strong.
 * 6)  Hearty; spicy.
 * 7)  Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
 * 8)  Difficult, tricky.
 * 1)  Ungenerous; stingy; tight-fisted.
 * 2) Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating.
 * 3) Intending to cause harm, successfully or otherwise; bearing ill will towards another.
 * 4) Powerful; fierce; strong.
 * 5)  Hearty; spicy.
 * 6)  Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
 * 7)  Difficult, tricky.
 * 1) Powerful; fierce; strong.
 * 2)  Hearty; spicy.
 * 3)  Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
 * 4)  Difficult, tricky.
 * 1)  Hearty; spicy.
 * 2)  Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
 * 3)  Difficult, tricky.
 * 1)  Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
 * 2)  Difficult, tricky.
 * 1)  Difficult, tricky.
 * 1)  Difficult, tricky.
 * 1)  Difficult, tricky.
 * 1)  Difficult, tricky.
 * 1)  Difficult, tricky.

Translations

 * Arabic: لَئِيم,
 * Basque: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: kruela, malafabla
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Gallurese: scurzónu, taccagnu
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:, , 악의적(惡意的)-이다,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ناھەموار
 * Luxembourgish: uerg
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: imbi, bulastog
 * Telugu: కారణమగుట


 * Catalan:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * Galician: ruín
 * Hebrew:
 * Irish: míghnaíúil, ocrach, ceachartha
 * Italian:, ,
 * Ottoman Turkish: پیس
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Sardinian:
 * Campidanese: pistriccu, asuríu, cananèu, taccagnu
 * Logudorese: arragatu, cogheddu, grengu, isurídu, zeccòsu
 * Sassarese: atziccaddu, migragnòsu, zecchincùru
 * Spanish: ,
 * Tagalog: mumurahin
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kruela, malafabla
 * Finnish: ,
 * Galician: mesquiño, ruín
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Irish: tútach
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:, , , ,
 * Korean:, , 이기적(利己的)-이다,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ناھەموار
 * Latvian: zemisks, nekrietns
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, , , mala onda
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: mababa, mahina
 * Telugu: స్వార్ధము


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: శక్తివంతమైన,, ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: malbonkvalita
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:, 열등(劣等)하다
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Tagalog: mababa, mahina
 * Telugu: నాణ్యత లేని


 * Finnish: ,
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: కష్ట సాధ్యము


 * Indonesian:, , ,
 * Interlingua:, , ,  , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:

Etymology 3
From, borrowed from (🇨🇬), 🇨🇬, from. Cognate with. For the musical sense, compare the cognate 🇨🇬. .

Adjective

 * 1) Having the mean (see noun below) as its value; average.
 * 2)  Middling; intermediate; moderately good, tolerable.
 * , II.ii.2:
 * I have declared in the causes what harm costiveness hath done in procuring this disease; if it be so noxious, the opposite must needs be good, or mean at least, as indeed it is […].
 * , II.ii.2:
 * I have declared in the causes what harm costiveness hath done in procuring this disease; if it be so noxious, the opposite must needs be good, or mean at least, as indeed it is […].

Related terms

 * median
 * mediate
 * mediation
 * mediator
 * mediocre
 * mediocrity
 * medium

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: meza
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Mittel-
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Interlingua: medie
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 平均的
 * Korean: 평균(平均)-의
 * Macedonian: среден
 * Mazanderani: میون
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сре̏дњӣ
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: panggitna, pro-medyo
 * Ukrainian: сере́дній
 * Welsh: cymedrig


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Portuguese:

Noun

 * 1)  A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
 * 2)  An intermediate step or intermediate steps.
 * 3) * a. 1563, Thomas Harding, "To the Reader", in The Works of John Jewel (1845 ed.)
 * Verily in this treatise this hath been mine only purpose; and the mean to bring the same to effect hath been such as whereby I studied to profit wholesomely, not to please delicately.
 * 1) * a. 1623, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
 * Apply desperate physic: / We must not now use balsamum, but fire, / The smarting cupping-glass, for that's the mean / To purge infected blood, such blood as hers.
 * 1) Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.
 * 2) * 1875, William Smith and Samuel Cheetham, editors, A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, Little, Brown and Company, volume 1, page 10, s.v. Accentus Ecclesiasticus,
 * It presents a sort of mean between speech and song, continually inclining towards the latter, never altogether leaving its hold on the former; it is speech, though always attuned speech, in passages of average interest and importance; it is song, though always distinct and articulate song, in passages demanding more fervid utterance.
 * 1)  The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part in polyphonic music; an alto instrument.
 * 2)  The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number of terms; the arithmetic mean.
 * 3)  Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number representative of its arguments; or, the number so yielded; a measure of central tendency.
 * 4) * 1997,, The Analysis of Household Surveys: A Microeconometric Approach to Development Policy, World Bank Publications, ISBN 9780801852541, page 51:
 * Note that (1.41) is simply the probability-weighted mean without any explicit allowance for the stratification; each observation is weighted by its inflation factor and the total divided by the total of the inflation factors for the survey.
 * 1)  Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and 3 in 1:2=3:6.
 * It presents a sort of mean between speech and song, continually inclining towards the latter, never altogether leaving its hold on the former; it is speech, though always attuned speech, in passages of average interest and importance; it is song, though always distinct and articulate song, in passages demanding more fervid utterance.
 * 1)  The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part in polyphonic music; an alto instrument.
 * 2)  The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number of terms; the arithmetic mean.
 * 3)  Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number representative of its arguments; or, the number so yielded; a measure of central tendency.
 * 4) * 1997,, The Analysis of Household Surveys: A Microeconometric Approach to Development Policy, World Bank Publications, ISBN 9780801852541, page 51:
 * Note that (1.41) is simply the probability-weighted mean without any explicit allowance for the stratification; each observation is weighted by its inflation factor and the total divided by the total of the inflation factors for the survey.
 * 1)  Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and 3 in 1:2=3:6.
 * 1)  Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and 3 in 1:2=3:6.
 * 1)  Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and 3 in 1:2=3:6.
 * 1)  Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and 3 in 1:2=3:6.

Hypernyms

 * measure of central tendency, measure of location, sample statistic

Coordinate terms

 * median, mode

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Interlingua: medio, ressource
 * Italian:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: meadhan
 * Spanish: ,
 * Tagalog: paraan
 * Telugu: పూర్తి అయింది
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian: междинна стъпка
 * Finnish: väliaskel
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese: ,


 * Bulgarian: средна стойност
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: μεσότης
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: media
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:, 평균치(平均値), 평균(平均)값
 * Maori: toharite
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: meadhan, cuibheas, cuibheasachd
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: kagintaan, kagitnaan


 * Finnish:
 * Portuguese:


 * Bulgarian: средна стойност
 * Catalan:
 * Czech: aritmetický průměr
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Icelandic: meðaltal, hreint meðaltal, venjulegt meðaltal
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Korean:
 * Malay:
 * Maori: tau toharite
 * Mongolian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: meadhan, cuibheas, cuibheasachd
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: tamtaman
 * Ukrainian: сере́днє


 * Arabic: مُتَوَسِّط
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek: μέσος όρος
 * Icelandic: meðaltal
 * Italian:
 * Maori: toharite, tau toharite
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: meadhan, cuibheas, cuibheasachd
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: keskimmäinen jäsen
 * Icelandic:, innliður
 * Italian:

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  mean

Verb

 * 1)  to be mean towards someone

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) centre, middle
 * 2) interior
 * 3) average
 * 1) average
 * 1) average

Etymology
From, from a derivation of the root. Cognate with 🇨🇬,, and 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) little, tiny

Etymology
From, compare 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) red