Definition of "signify" []

• To denote; mean. (verb-transitive)
• To make known, as with a sign or word: signify one's intent. (verb-transitive)
• To have meaning or importance. See Synonyms at count1. (verb-intransitive)
• Slang To exchange humorous insults in a verbal game. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Not only does the term signify full recognition of nursing's human foundation and meaning but it also points the direction for nursing's necessary development."
• "Canonical Books, it was but an easy step to make the term signify the"
• "Alexandria makes the term signify in Syria, impudent, thieving, wicked."