signify
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signify
- /ˈsɪɡnɪfaɪ/
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English signifien, from Old French signifier, from Latin significare.
verb signifies · signifying · signified
- To create a sign out of something.
- To give (something) a meaning or an importance.
- To show one’s intentions with a sign etc.; to indicate, announce, or portend. I’ll to the king; and signify to him / That thus I have resign’d my charge to you.
- To mean; to betoken. Life’s […] a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.
- To make a difference; to matter (in negative or interrogative expressions). To be but in the company of those we love, satisfies us: it does not signify whether we speak to ’em or not, whether we think on them or on indifferent things. To be near ’em is all.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: mean, intend, stand for, denote, indicate, refer, represent, designate, demonstrate, entail, show, stated, imply, nominate, suggest, appoint
Translations
Every language
verb to give something a meaning
| Français | signifier |
|---|
verb to mean, to betoken — see also mean, denote, betoken, point out, represent, imply, suppose
| Español | significar |
|---|---|
| Português | significar |
| Français | signifier |
| Deutsch | bedeuten |
| Italiano | significare |
| Română | semnifica |
| Русский | означа́ть označátʹ, зна́чить znáčitʹ |
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