Literal+meaning

  • 21meaning —   Mana o, mana o nui, ano.    ♦ Literal meaning, mana o maoli, mana o pili pono.    ♦ Hidden, figurative meaning, kaona, mana o ho onalonalo, mana o ho onanenane, mana o ho opilipili (see ex., kolopā, ōhea1).    ♦ Principal meaning, mana o nui …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 22literal sense — way in which something was meant to be understood, literal meaning …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 23literal — (adj.) late 14c., taking words in their natural meaning (originally in reference to Scripture and opposed to mystical or allegorical), from O.Fr. literal and directly from L.L. literalis/litteralis of or belonging to letters or writing, from L.… …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 24literal construction — The determination by a court of the meaning of the language of a document by an examination of only the actual words used in it, without any consideration of the intent of the parties who signed the writing except for the fact that they chose the …

    Law dictionary

  • 25meaning — meaning, sense, acceptation, signification, significance, import are comparable when they denote the idea which something (as a word, a passage, a facial expression, an action, or a situation) conveys to the mind or is intended to convey to the… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 26literal interpretation — index connotation, content (meaning) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 27literal sense — index connotation, content (meaning) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

    Law dictionary

  • 28Literal translation — Part of a series on Translation Types Language interpretation …

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  • 29meaning — n. 1) to misconstrue a meaning 2) an accepted; basic; clear; connotative; double, equivocal; figurative; literal; obscure meaning 3) grammatical; lexical; referential meaning 4) in a meaning (in the accepted meaning of the word) * * * [ miːnɪŋ]… …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 30literal — [[t]lɪ̱tərəl[/t]] 1) ADJ: usu ADJ n The literal sense of a word or phrase is its most basic sense. In many cases, the people there are fighting, in a literal sense, for their homes. 2) ADJ: usu ADJ n A literal translation is one in which you… …

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