word meaning

1. 1.

   the accepted meaning of a word

   Synonymsword senseacceptation

   Broadersense

Questions about word meaning

What does word meaning mean?

word meaning means "the accepted meaning of a word".

What is another word for word meaning?

Close synonyms include word sense, acceptation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is word meaning a common word?

word meaning is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.