Mean
1 | adjective | approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value 2 | adjective | characterized by malice 3 | adjective | having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality 4 | adjective | excellent 5 | adjective | marked by poverty befitting a beggar 6 | adjective | (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity 7 | adjective | (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt 8 | adjective | of no value or worth (16 meanings)
m'een (IPA: mˈin)
mean (no hyphenation) (4 letters | 1 syllable)
1300 (High Middle ages) (726 years ago)
1852 (Victorian era) (174 years ago)
1330 (High Middle ages) (696 years ago)
Old English | | Old French | Latin
written: 456th most common (1 in 4444 words) (88% verb | 12% adjective | 0% noun)
spoken: 64th most common (1 in 442 words)
(includes some inflected forms)
meaner | meanest | meant | meaning | means
average | hateful | base | meanspirited | beggarly | mingy | miserly | tight | bastardly | intend | say | entail | imply | signify | stand for | ... (total: 20)
compassionate | generous | kind | nice | polite | sympathetic | gentle | noble (total: 8)
aim | drive | get | import | represent | signify | spell | stand for | symbolise | symbolize | typify | denote | refer | be after | design | ... (total: 30)
convey | necessitate | associate | colligate | connect | link | link up | relate | tie in | designate | destine | intend | specify | average | norm (total: 15)
aquamarine | baleen | bean | benzene | between | caffeine | canteen | careen | casein | citrine | clean | colleen | convene | cuisine | dean | ... (total: 66) (based on typical American pronunciation)
mien
bean | Bean | dean | Dean | jean | Jean | Kean | lean | Lean | mead | meal | meat | moan | Sean | wean (total: 15)
amen | mane | name
golden mean | mean deviation | mean deviation from the mean | mean distance | mean solar day | mean solar time | mean sun | mean time | mean value | regression toward the mean (total: 10)
Mean (US population: 370 people, asian pacific islander: 76%)
Tbeng Mean Chey (Cambodia, 25286 people)
Lean Mean Thirteen (Janet Evanovich) | The Doctrine of the Mean (Zisi)
The Mean Season | Mean Streets | Mean Machine | Mean Johnny Barrows | Mean Girls | Mean Creek (total: 6)
mean.com | mean.net | mean.info | mean.biz
Aim | Average | Bad-tempered | Base | Bell curve figure | Cruel | Hard-hearted | Have as a definition | Ignoble | Ill-tempered | Imply | Important statistic | Intend | Like taking candy from a baby? | Lowdown | Middle figure | Nasty | ... (total: 28) (based on all New York Times crossword puzzles 1994 to 2009)
6 (International English) | 6 (North American English)
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