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means

/miːnz/ noun

Categories: ActionsThingsEveryday Words

In Latin: īnstrūmentum, māchināmen Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about means at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. plural of mean

noun

  1. An instrument or condition to achieve a result. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
    She treated him as a means to an end.

noun

  1. Financial resources; wealth.
    a person of means; independent means
  2. Substantial wealth.
    She is a woman of means.

verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of mean

Origin

From mean (“method or course of action used to achieve some result”). Compare French moyens, German Mittel.

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