signify

Academic Word List, sublist 1.

About 3.38 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To create a sign out of something.
2. verb To give (something) a meaning or an importance. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
3. verb To show one’s intentions with a sign etc.; to indicate, announce, or portend.
4. verb To mean; to betoken.
5. verb To make a difference; to matter (in negative or interrogative expressions).

Similar words

mean intend stand for denote indicate refer represent designate demonstrate entail

Often followed by

the that a to an their his in nothing

Word family

significance significant significantly signified signifies signifying