means

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   how a result is obtained or an end is achieved

   a means of control

2. 2
   noun

   considerable capital, wealth or income

   They are a person of means.

3. 3
   noun

   An instrument or condition to achieve a result.

   She treated him as a means to an end.

4. 4
   noun

   Financial resources; wealth.

   a person of means; independent means

5. 5
   noun

   an instrumentality for accomplishing some end

6. 6
   noun

   plural of mean

7. 7
   verb

   third-person singular simple present indicative of mean

8. 8
   name

   A surname.

Etymology

Various origins: * Reduced form of McMeans, a surname of Irish origin. * Habitational surname from the villages of East and West Meon, in Hampshire. * A nickname from Middle English mene (“inferior in rank”), which is from Old English ġemǣne (“common, general”), or Middle English mene (“moderate in behaviour”), which is from Old French mëen, mean.