0 (of a word) the object, action, idea, etc. it represents -- betydning [ masculine ]
the meaning of the song betydningen av sangen
The word ’set’ has many meanings. Ordet “set” har mange betydninger.
1 [ singular ] the significance or importance of sth -- mening [ masculine ]
the meaning of life meningen med livet
2 the sense in which a statement, action, word etc is (intended to be) understood -- betydning; hensikt
What is the meaning of his behaviour?
What is the meaning of this phrase?
3 (of a look, glance etc) showing a certain feeling or giving a certain message -- megetsigende
As these groups identified themselves with specific parts of the landscape, particular parts of it took on ritual and symbolic meanings.
The material world, present or past, is imbued with social structures that people invest with social and symbolic meanings.
Symbolic meanings are constructed through historical traditions, articulated contextually and reproduced only in practice.
The third group was taught both pronunciation and meaning, providing the full set of lexical constituents.
If they thought both meanings were synonymous, then they were told to choose the meaning that would be the most likely used for the sentence.
However, the circumstances and psychological meaning surrounding separation from a parent may play as important a role as the fact of the separation itself.
Or, adopting a distributed point of view, conceptual representations of verbs may share fewer meaning elements in a bilingual's memory than those of nouns.
However, the activation of semantic representations necessary for the retention of meaning will continue to be sustained in the postsentence retention interval.
