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How to pronounce mean
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What does mean mean?
verbTo intend.
“I didn't mean to knock your tooth out.”
To have as intentions of a given kind.
“Don't be angry; she meant well.”
To intend (something) for a given purpose or fate; to predestine.
“Man was not meant to question such things.”
adjCommon; general.
Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.
“a man of mean parentage”
Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.
“a mean appearance”
nounA method or course of action used to achieve some result.
“Philosophical doubt is not an end, but a mean.”
An intermediate step or intermediate steps.
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?”
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