Meaning can be:

• Meaning (linguistic), meaning which is communicated through the use of language.

• Meaning (non-linguistic), extra-linguistic meaning (intentional communication without the use of language), and natural meaning, where no intentions are involved at all.

• Meaning as definition, interpretation, or semantics.

• Meaning (semiotics) has to do with the distribution of signs in sign relations.

• The production of meaning is semiosis

• Meaning as a relationship between ontology and truth

• Verifiability theory of meaning

• Meaning of life — the philosophical question

• Meaning of pain — A questionable philosophy

• Meanings of asteroid names

• "The Meaning of Meaning" — a book, subtitled A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism (1923) was co-authored by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge

• The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life is a 200 page book by A. C. Grayling first published in 2001

• "The Meaning of Life" — A Monty Python film.

• Meaning as a product of consciousness, awareness, insight, or understanding

• Meaning as knowledge or epistemology

• Meaning as a reference or equivalence

• Meaning as values or a value system

• Associative meaning in an expression has to do with individual mental understandings of the speaker.

See also

• Hermeneutics
• Linguistics
• Semiotics
• Solipsism
• Psychosis