Word Meaning

Meaning of understand

- To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink.
- To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill.
- To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain.
- To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume.
- To stand under; to support.
- To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being.
- To be informed; to have or receive knowledge.

Crossword clue for understand

- Comprehend
- Learn
- Reason, ... cause