hidden meaning

collocation in English

meaningsofhiddenandmeaning

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hidden
adjective[usually before noun]
uk
/ˈhɪd.ən/us
/ˈhɪd.ən/
not easy ...
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meaning
noun
uk
/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/us
/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/
The meaning of something is what it expresses ...
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(Definition ofhiddenandmeaningfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhidden meaning

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Indeed, we are on the look-out for remarks which suggest any ambiguity and in which thehiddenmeaningglimmers through an innocent expression.
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The final 350 of the work amounts to a kind of coda, albeit one with a fascinatinghiddenmeaningto be taken up later.
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Since people always move from one company to another, it is difficult to reach the original report authors who understand thehiddenmeaningof historical project data.
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Pre-arranged code words withhiddenmeaningwere the stock-in-trade of all of us as prisoners of war.
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I mean that the words convey nohiddenmeaningand are quite simple and harmless in their application.
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Or is there some underlyinghiddenmeaningto this phrase?
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I would say, in all seriousness and without anyhiddenmeaning, that it is genuinely far too early to mention deadlock or failure.
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One of the most difficult parts of my duty is dealing with questions that would appear to have somehiddenmeaning.
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There may be ahiddenmeaningwhich we shall hear later on.
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It makes one wonder whether there is, behind these unnecessary words, somehiddenmeaning.
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It has not merely ahiddenmeaningbut many hidden meanings.
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There is nohiddenmeaningbehind this amendment.
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Paper is accommodating, but one must also learn to read between the lines and look for thehiddenmeaning.
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Has the qualification anyhiddenmeaning?
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It has no abstruse orhiddenmeaningbehind it.
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It probably has profoundhiddenmeaning.
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What is thehiddenmeaningthere?
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The connotative meaning is the products deep andhiddenmeaning.
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Because of the cryptic nature of the poems, the anthologists added commentaries to them, thereby providing theirhiddenmeaningand esoteric significance.
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The esoteric nature in which the patak is situated also allows forhiddenmeaningin the writings.
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