What is meaning?

Definition
	Meaning is a notion in semantics classically defined as having two components:
	Reference, anything in the referential realm denoted by a word or expression, and Sense, the system of paradigmatic and syntagmatic relationships between a lexical unit and other lexical units in a language.

Source
	Lyons 1977b 174, 175, 206

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Concept module: meaning
In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): M
In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
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