Meaning

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late Middle English: verbal noun from mean1.

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From Middle English mening, menyng, equivalent to mean +‎ -ing. Cognate with Scots mening(“intent, purpose, sense, meaning”), West Frisian miening(“opinion, mind”), Dutch mening(“view, opinion, judgement”), German Meinung(“opinion, view, mind, idea”), Danish and Swedish mening(“meaning, sense, sentence, opinion”), Icelandic meining(“meaning”).

From mean +‎ -ing.

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meaning (n.)

c. 1300, meninge, "sense, that which is intended to be expressed," also "act of remembering" (a sense now obsolete), verbal noun from mean (v.). Sense of "significance, import" is from 1680s.