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noun as in acceptation

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The story begins in the 1950s, in a fictional village called Shadbagh, a Farsi word meaning “the happy garden.”

Cooper was then faced with a word meaning easily shaped and bent.

They shouted “aarigaa” at each other—an Inupiaq word meaning “very good.”

Thus it was, probably, that a simple word meaning "river" came to be used as the name of the world's greatest city.

Durdam is an old word meaning an uproar, and akin to the Welsh word dowrd.

April, the beautiful name given to this second month of spring, comes from a Latin word meaning “to open.”

Because of these many gifts, she was named Pandora, a Greek word meaning “all gifts.”

If indeed of every idle word—meaning not trivial word, but word consciously false—men shall hereafter give account, Heavens!

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to word meaning, such as: connotation, denotation, intent, meaning, message, and purport.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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