Definition of "word meaning" []

• The accepted meaning of a word (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Or they might have gone into the Apennine Mountains to set up a camp of runawayswhat in later days was called a community of maroons from a Spanish word meaning living on mountaintops."
• "This extravagant affair—or “meschianza” an Italian word meaning “medley”, as it was called—had been imagined, designed, and arranged by John André, an amorous and romantic captain in the British service with a taste for intrigue and a talent for theatricals, idealized portraits, and light verse."
• "It was for Alexander a tragic flaw, or hamartia, a Greek word meaning to miss the mark when shooting an arrow Christians would later use the same word to mean “sin”."