## Meanings
1. What a word, sign, or action expresses or stands for.
2. The purpose, value, or importance of something.
3. What a person intends to say or do; intention.

## Examples
- What is the meaning of this sentence?
- Many people search for the meaning of life.
- It was their meaning to take only what they needed.

## Derived Forms
- antimeaning
- foremeaning
- meaninged
- meaningful
- meaningless
- meaninglessly
- meaninglessness
- meaningly
- meaningness
- nonmeaning
- submeaning
- undermeaning

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: mening

## Etymology
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”).

## AI Etymology
Meaning comes 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”). In present-day English its meanings include what a word, sign, or action expresses or stands for, the purpose, value, or importance of something, and what a person intends to say or do; intention. Related and derived forms include antimeaning, foremeaning, and meaninged.

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