Perhaps the answer to the question will be truly this, that in a general and popular one the word does not admit of a definite meaning, but that this varies according to the subject and circumstances.
Would it be proper to give an approbation that cannot be appropriate, and that has no definite meaning?
To us an English book is full of instinctive beauty, every letter or mark possessing a definite meaning that is instantly conveyed to our minds, because we have become familiar with them by diligent study and practise.
In the ordinary communication of our thoughts we employ arbitrary signs and sounds to which we have universally agreed to fix a definite meaning.
Commentators generally unite in attaching a definite meaning to certain symbols, and they tell us that these can not be applied otherwise without violating their nature.
Some platitudes have a definite meaning and a practical application, and are established by the uniform and long-continued experience of all people.
It is not necessary, then, to give a definition at the outset; we are going to use familiar terms which have a definite meaning in the same sense in which everybody uses them.
Long before the child understands even a single word, before he uses a single syllable consistently with a definite meaning, he already has a number of ideas which are expressed by looks and gestures and cries.
Half the battle of freethought will be won when people attach a definite meaning to the terms they use.
It would perhaps tend to clearness in argument if you gave this Divine attribute some other name, instead of using for it an expression which has already a definite meaning.
All that we can do in such cases is to repeat words, but if they have no definite meaning we cannot believe them: for the act of faith or conviction is founded on the affirmation that the two terms of a particular proposition agree.
The preposition je is the only one in Esperanto without a definite meaning.
A word consists of one or more syllables or distinct sounds, and has a definite meaning.
They are not only complete words in themselves with a definite meaning, but they can be treated as root-words and receive prefixes, suffixes, and grammatical terminations.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "definite meaning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
