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say it: meenz
means is a noun meaning "thing or person that acts to produce a particular effect or achieve an end". It carries 3 recorded senses.
thing or person that acts to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
“a means of control”
“an example is the best agency of instruction”
“the true way to success”
an instrumentality for accomplishing some end
considerable capital (wealth or income)
“he is a man of means”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for means come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.