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Words with a similar base: mean, mean_value, meanspirited

'mean'

[mean.n.01] as in: an average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n

'mean'

[mean.v.01] as in: mean or intend to express or convey

Examples:
You never understand what I mean!
what do his words intend?

'mean'

[entail.v.01] as in: have as a logical consequence

Examples:
The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers

'mean'

[mean.v.03] as in: denote or connote

Examples:
`maison' means `house' in French
An example sentence would show what this word means

'mean'

[intend.v.01] as in: have in mind as a purpose

Examples:
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'

[mean.v.05] as in: have a specified degree of importance

Examples:
My ex-husband means nothing to me
Happiness means everything

'mean'

[think_of.v.04] as in: intend to refer to

Examples:
I'm thinking of good food when I talk about France
Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!

'mean'

[mean.v.07] as in: destine or designate for a certain purpose

Examples:
These flowers were meant for you

'mean'

[average.s.01] as in: approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value

Examples:
the average income in New England is below that of the nation
of average height for his age
the mean annual rainfall

'mean'

[hateful.s.01] as in: characterized by malice

Examples:
a hateful thing to do
in a mean mood

'mean'

[base.s.05] as in: having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; - Edmund Burke; ; - Shakespeare

Examples:
that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble
taking a mean advantage
chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort
something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics

'mean'

[mean.s.04] as in: excellent

Examples:
famous for a mean backhand

'mean'

[beggarly.s.01] as in: marked by poverty befitting a beggar

Examples:
a beggarly existence in the slums
a mean hut

'mean'

[mean.s.06] as in: (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity

Examples:
a mean person
he left a miserly tip

'mean'

[beggarly.s.02] as in: (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt

'mean'

[bastardly.s.02] as in: of no value or worth

Examples:
I was caught in the bastardly traffic

Origins

					mean (English)
├── meene (Middle English (1100-1500))
│   └── meien (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
├── mene (Middle English (1100-1500))
└── menen (Middle English (1100-1500))
    └── mænan (Old English (ca. 450-1100))