Noun

• S: (n) meaning, significance, signification, import (the message that is intended or expressed or signified) "what is the meaning of this sentence"; "the significance of a red traffic light"; "the signification of Chinese characters"; "the import of his announcement was ambiguous"
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• S: (n) lexical meaning (the meaning of a content word that depends on the nonlinguistic concepts it is used to express)
• S: (n) grammatical meaning (the meaning of a word that depends on its role in a sentence; varies with inflectional form)
• S: (n) symbolization, symbolisation (the use of symbols to convey meaning)
• S: (n) sense, signified (the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted) "the dictionary gave several senses for the word"; "in the best sense charity is really a duty"; "the signifier is linked to the signified"
• S: (n) intension, connotation (what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression)
• S: (n) referent (something referred to; the object of a reference)
• S: (n) effect, essence, burden, core, gist (the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work)
• S: (n) intent, purport, spirit (the intended meaning of a communication)
• S: (n) moral, lesson (the significance of a story or event) "the moral of the story is to love thy neighbor"
• S: (n) nuance, nicety, shade, subtlety, refinement (a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude) "without understanding the finer nuances you can't enjoy the humor"; "don't argue about shades of meaning"
• S: (n) overtone ((usually plural) an ulterior implicit meaning or quality) "overtones of despair"
• S: (n) point (a brief version of the essential meaning of something) "get to the point"; "he missed the point of the joke"; "life has lost its point"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form