Meaning

Definition

meaning /'mÇ:nÇŋ / n ၁။ [U,C] အဓိပၸာယ္။ အနက္။ အနက္ အဓိပၸာယ္။ sounds and patterns that convey meaning ❍ a word with several meanings ❍ The word is being used in its original meaning. ❍ a poem with a deeper/hidden meaning. ၂။ [U] အဓိပၸာယ္။ ရည္မွန္းခ်က္။ My life seems to have lost all meaning. ❍ With her, he learned the true meaning of love. adj အဓိပၸာယ္ပါေသာ။ a meaning look/glance. ❏ meaningful /-fl / adj ၁။ ေလးနက္ေသာ။ အဓိပၸာယ္ ရိွေသာ။ a meaningful relationship/discussion. ၂။ (က) အဓိပၸာယ္ပါေသာ။ a meaningful look/pause. (ခ) အနက္ အဓိပၸာယ္ရိွေသာ။ meaningful sounds/utterances. meaningfully /-fǝli / adv meaningfulness n [U] ❏ meaningless adj ၁။ ေလးနက္မႈ မရိွေသာ။ အဓိပၸာယ္ မရိွေသာ။ meaningless chatter/violence. ၂။ အဓိပၸာယ္ မရိွေသာ။ a meaningless word/statement. meaninglessly adv meaninglessness n [U]

Examples

1. Move this word and you change the meaning of the sentence.
2. [get/catch someone’s meaning] : I’m not sure I get your meaning.
3. [layers/shades of meaning] : Examine the writing closely
4. and you discover multiple layers of meaning.
5. It seems that the clothes have a deep religious meaning.
6. This poem’s real meaning has always been a puzzle.
7. [meaning of] : The book tackles important questions
8. such as the meaning of life.
9. [meaning to] : There didn’t seem to be any meaning to her work.
10. [meaning for] : Religion has little meaning for many people today.
11. [something loses its meaning] : Times change and ancient customs lose their meaning.