mean to

Idioms and Phrases

Intend to, as in I meant to go running this morning but got up too late , or I'm sorry I broke it—I didn't mean to . This idiom was first recorded in 1560.

Example Sentences

Do these terms mean to-day just what they did fifty years ago or will mean half a century hence?

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We can talk to-morrow—I mean to-day, of course: I forgot 'twas next-door to daylight now.

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Plato and Aristotle held it; though Aristotle, as we have seen, did not mean by “imitating Nature” quite what we mean to-day.

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I will go out to-morrow—I mean to-day, for it's one o'clock now—and view the body myself.

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Do you see any objection to my calling again, I mean to-day, on Mrs. Archdale?

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