10 sentences with 'meaning'
Example sentences and phrases with the word meaning and other words derived from it.
• « Until that moment, I had not understood in all its horror the full meaning of the word "incontinence". »
• « Freud concluded that "the dream really has a meaning, and implies the satisfaction of a hidden desire". »
• « - Cities: note that in English, the very word "civilisation" is closely related to the word "civic", meaning "having to do with cities" as in "civic government" or "civic duty". »
• « Every few years, a field is allowed to "fallow", meaning that nothing is planted and animals are allowed to graze on it. »
• « The word Mesopotamia is Greek, meaning 'between the rivers', and refers to the area between the Tigris and Euphrates, two of the most important waterways of the ancient world. »
• « Indeed, one of the earliest terms for "king" was ensis, meaning the representative of the god who "really" ruled the city. »
• « However, around 1650 BC, a group of Canaanites founded what became known as the 'Hyksos' dynasty, an Egyptian term meaning simply 'leaders of foreigners', after they overthrew the king and seized power in Lower Egypt. »
• « It was also when the Egyptian kings began to call themselves pharaohs, meaning "great house", lord of all things. »
• « The pharaoh renamed himself Akhenaten, meaning "he who serves Aton", moved the capital to a new city he had built, plundered the temples of other gods, and even had agents chisel references to the other gods from buildings and walls. »
• « To this day, the word "phonetic", meaning the correspondence of symbols and sounds, is directly related to the word "Phoenician". »