The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word MEANING
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More clues leading to the result MEANING
- Sense one female back in the embrace of another
- Interpretation of Enigma adding new variation
- Moving in a roundabout way loses the German sense
- Signifying average in golf
- Import from Chinese dynasty to include endless jeans
- Poor international, no good as import
- In new game, ground gets significance
- . More or less article's inquiring essentially, no good on implication
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What does MEANING mean?
MEANING noun- (of words or symbols) The entity, perception, feeling or concept thereby represented or evoked.
- The value, purpose, importance, point or significance (of something beyond the fact of that thing's existence).
- The object or concept that a word or phrase denotes, or that which a sentence says.
- Intention.
- To lament.
- To intend.
- To convey (a meaning).
- To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says).
- To cause or produce (a given result); to bring about (a given result).
- (usually with to) To be of some level of importance.
- Having a (specified) intention.
- Expressing some intention or significance; meaningful.