To intend.
I didn't mean to knock your tooth out.
To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
Does she really mean what she said to him last night?
A method or course of action used to achieve some result.
To say truth, it is a meane full of uncertainty and danger.
An intermediate step or intermediate steps.
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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; compla...
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a man of mean parentage
Having the mean (see noun below) as its value; average.
The mean family has 2.4 children.
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.
Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium.
Then will not this constitution be a kind of mean between aristocracy and oligarchy?